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🇰🇵 A few years after Japanese colonisers left the Korean Peninsula at the end of WW2, the South Korean government, under US occupation, began to round up & slaughter communists — figures range from 30,000 to 50,000, in merely months.

This caused the Northern forces to come to the rescue of their comrades stuck in the South, in 1950, or what is called in the West an “invasion”.

The US military then used this as an excuse to intervene, in an actual invasion whose actual goals were beyond maintaining US control of the South, and even beyond expanding US control to the North.

“If we have made the decision to use military force to solve problems, then we ought to use it, and use an overwhelming amount; use too much, and deliberately use too much, so that there are no errors”

Curtis LeMay, US General (1952, Korean

The US army burnt forests, poisoned rivers, used white phosphorous, agent orange, and other chemical and biological weapons on civilians. Koreans moved entire farms & factories underground.