CSPAN3 Lectures In History Joseph Glatthaar On Korean War Civil-Military... November 25, 2017
In that it had been a colony of japans sense 1910. During the second world war, there was fighting in korea, the u. S. And the soviet union jointly occupied korea and they agreed to divide korea. Now, northern korea, that is what we call today north korea, was very much communist influenced. 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 South Koreans elected a democratic government. North korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so it sent insurgents into south korea to tr...