What is South Koreas explanation of the cause of Korean War?
After WWII, Korea was split much the same way Germany was. The Korean peninsula had been ruled by Japan prior to the end of the war; in 1945 following the surrender of Japan, the peninsula was divided by American administrators along the 38th parallel, with United States troops occupying the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part. The Koreans weren’t consulted about this, though, and they didn’t like it. It caused a lot of civil unrest, with many cross-boarder skirmishes leading up to the war. The situation escalated into open warfare when the North Korean forces attacked south to reunify Korea on June 25, 1950. The Soviets, and later the ChiComs fueled the North Korean aggression. The South Korean defense against this aggression was a police action by the United Nations.
