CSPAN3 Korean War And Civil-Military Relations September 1, 2017
Second world war that was fighting in korea and the u. S. And soviet union and they agreed to divide korea. Northern korea, that is what we call today north korea was very much communist influenced and southern korea which we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the u. N. They sponsored elections in south korea and the South Koreans elected a democratic government. North korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so it sent insurgents to try to overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then in january of 1950, the u. S. Secretary of sta...