In a brief... realistic take, that was pretty inaccurate. For starters, the US pushed the North Koreans back to the river, yeah, but then the Chinese arrived, threw like a million men at the UN forces, and pushed us back to the 38th parallel. The treaty was signed both to prevent further loss of land (they had almost reached Seoul) and to avoid an all out war with China. In fact, at the beginning of the war, if it wasn't for Macarthur's awesome Inchon landing, there wouldn't have been a South Korea to start with. As a South Korean descendant, my grandpa constantly reminds me of how he remembers Macarthur the hero, fighting the Commies back to the border... and the subsequent push of the commies all the way back across current day North Korea. Most of my older relatives wish the US had brought the fight to the chinese, god knows we would have won, and there wouldn't have been the travesty that was the Chinese people's revolution, or the travesty that is current day North Korea. But of course, we've gotta keep the peace first in the international community, no matter the cost of that peace... *sigh*.
I don't think North Korea wants to unified with the South because the Cold War is ended and the Pyongyang's politics is very "stranded" from many domestic sources.With my relatively knowledge of Korean and browsing North Korean websites hosted in China or Japanese servers, this is my conclusion.
One of the most expensive US screw-ups ever. I still say the killed US vets and all their missing descendants could have done wonders for this country including perhaps saving the US auto industry. If we had not stopped the MIC in Vietnam we'd have a DMZ there too and similar mind boggling damages to our prosperity continuing well into the future.
That's exactly the situation, not to mention if North and South united, there would be the elimination of the constant, quiet fear that the crazy government of the north would eventually try to blow everybody up.
ceredronJun 2, 2009
In a brief... realistic take, that was pretty inaccurate. For starters, the US pushed the North Koreans back to the river, yeah, but then the Chinese arrived, threw like a million men at the UN forces, and pushed us back to the 38th parallel. The treaty was signed both to prevent further loss of land (they had almost reached Seoul) and to avoid an all out war with China. In fact, at the beginning of the war, if it wasn't for Macarthur's awesome Inchon landing, there wouldn't have been a South Korea to start with. As a South Korean descendant, my grandpa constantly reminds me of how he remembers Macarthur the hero, fighting the Commies back to the border... and the subsequent push of the commies all the way back across current day North Korea. Most of my older relatives wish the US had brought the fight to the chinese, god knows we would have won, and there wouldn't have been the travesty that was the Chinese people's revolution, or the travesty that is current day North Korea. But of course, we've gotta keep the peace first in the international community, no matter the cost of that peace... *sigh*.
daphoenixJun 2, 2009
By MacArthur being the hero, you must mean his amateurish blunders during the War?I believe there's a book or two written about how he screwed up.
Closed AccountJun 2, 2009
I don't think North Korea wants to unified with the South because the Cold War is ended and the Pyongyang's politics is very "stranded" from many domestic sources.With my relatively knowledge of Korean and browsing North Korean websites hosted in China or Japanese servers, this is my conclusion.
Closed AccountJun 2, 2009
One of the most expensive US screw-ups ever. I still say the killed US vets and all their missing descendants could have done wonders for this country including perhaps saving the US auto industry. If we had not stopped the MIC in Vietnam we'd have a DMZ there too and similar mind boggling damages to our prosperity continuing well into the future.
ceredronJun 2, 2009
That's exactly the situation, not to mention if North and South united, there would be the elimination of the constant, quiet fear that the crazy government of the north would eventually try to blow everybody up.
thenazzJun 2, 2009
Good God! Say it again ...
Closed AccountJun 2, 2009
Indeed :)But s**t, it did make me triple take.
setecJun 3, 2009
We should have just nuked all of Asia and been done with it.On the plus side, since we didn't, I can have my porr fry ry.