From: dtwei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Danielle T Wei)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: questions of the Korean WAr
Date: 22 Nov 92 00:22:26 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <92325.222922XXX100@psuvm.psu.edu> XXX100@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> >From: wenz@ucs.orst.edu (Wen Zongyao)
> >
> >I recently saw a program of the Koeran War.
> >I wonder why the U.S. didn't get a victory
> >in that war.  The U.S. troops are much stronger
> >than North Koeran and Chinese troops by the
> >mean of equipments.  The same force with the

Well, look at vietnam

>              Better equiped indeed,
>              but not overwhelmingly.
>
> >same general, General McArthur, defeated Japanese
> >troops in the Pacific, but were frustrated by
> >North Korean and China.
>
>                 A-bomb won the war agaist Japan.

Well, although McArthur did indeed crush the Japanese, he used a tactic
that could not be used against the Chinese. During WWII, he used ships to
trap Japanese on island-forts and flattened them. But during the Korean War,
the Chinese were mostly Light Infantries that could not be trapped very easily

> >Which side did most Korean people support?
>                 Don't remember any poll conducted then.

Which Korean side are you talking about??

> >Was the conflict between General McArthur and
> >President Truman(spelling ?) a big cause of
> >the non-victory ending?

No.. Although the American media wants to make it appear that way so
they can say something like "we could've won if we really wanted to"

> >Did the U.S. force fight as hard as they did
> >in the WWII?

Yes, the Amerricans fought very hard (Hamburger/Pork Chop Hills)
But the conditions were very bad. Korea during winter times is pretty cold :)
Also, the Americans carried too many things to make them mobile, and thus
did not fight very well on the Korean plains/hills. (I think the average
American soldier carried 50 pounds to the Chinese soldier's 10 pounds)

> >Did North Korean and Chinese forces push the
> >U.S. force back by vast number of troops?
>
>                 Mainly chinese forces.

Yes, mostly Chinese Light Infantry.
Yes partly by numbers (as the Americans want you to believe), but mostly
by mobility. The Chinese army dumped its artillery at the Yalu river, and
carried enough food for only a week when they entered the war.
Many American regiments were caught off guard during the confusion of the
nights.. I recall a story in which an American soldier tells about how
the Chinese appeared like ghosts, and were suddenly attacking them from
every direction, even from the directions they expected to find friendly
American regiments..

> >Should or shouldn't the U.S. enter the war if the UN
> >didn't make a decision to help South Korean?
> >Should or shouldn't China enter the war?
>
>                Too late.

The U.S. should not have entered in any case..

> >What was the reason of North Korean's invasion at
> >the beginning of the war?
>
>              To be a Marx guided King.
>              Some say to invoke WWIII.
>
> >The program I saw called the Korean War a forgotten
> >war.  What do you think is the biggest reason
> >that most Americans don't talk about this war so much?

Because the war was not covered by the media..
Besides, most Korean-veterans recall that place as a freezing/dying hell,
what good will it do to "remember" that war??

> >Thank you for your attention.
> >
> >Wen Zongyao
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