Re: Poll: who started the Korean war in 1950
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1. Originally, the USSR was going to occupy all of Korea. The US insisted on a shared occupation after the Bomb worked, and the US no longer welcomed Soviet participation in the war on Japan.
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Huh? The Potsdam Declaration preceded the bombings of Hirsoshima and Nagaski. After the bombings we wouldnt have needed the USSR's cooperation in the North. As I recall Russia hadn't even declared war against Japan. Stalin welcomed an administrative foothold in the North once Japan did surrender to the US in order to continue installing communist governments around the world.
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