From: v123ptyu@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Sungwoo Kim)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean
Subject: Re: questions of the Korean War
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:26:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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> In article <9986@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, hnkst2+@pitt.edu (Hanhwe N Kim) writes...
> wenz@ucs.orst.edu (Wen Zongyao) writes:
> >>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 
> >>same general, General McArthur, defeated Japanese
> >>troops in the Pacific, but were frustrated by
> >>North Korean and China.
> > 
>  The Chinese made up for their lack of equipment with superior tactics
> >and training, especially in night time warfare. 

	and especially used tactic called "In-hae-jun-sul" (korean term)
	to attack the enemy which was to use the advantage of
	having great number of men, which counted around 1 to 2 million.

> >>Was the conflict between General McArthur and
> >>President Truman(spelling ?) a big cause of
> >>the non-victory ending?
> >The Americans had already suffered their biggest defeat at the
> >Yalu River when McArthur and Truman  began to really fight.
> >Both sides learned that they could not defeat the other (or 
> >should have if they hadn't been so stubborn and stupid) when each 
> >advanced deep into the others territory but found themselves overextended
> >( NK at Nakdong River, UN at Yalu River, and PRC at Wae-gwan ) resulting 
> >in severe losses. both sides had very skilled military forces by the
> >time they reached the current DMZ. I think it was due to poor quality 
> >of political leadership that caused a stalemated war to drag on for much 
> >longer than necessary. The Peace talks continued for almost 2 years while
> >both sides wasted lives over small hills along the DMZ.

	True.
	There was also a talk of exposing atomic bomb to Manchuria
	in effort to prevent any support from Chinese army.
	If Chinese hadn't entered the war, it could have ended much
	earlier.  Truman didn't approved McArthur's proposal of such
	which may have been a reason for such long conflict.

> >>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?
> >The war was costly and unrewarding for both the Chinese and
> >the US. Neither side could afford to lose and neither side
> >could afford what it would take to win. It was a war that should
> >have been prevented. The Americans already lost in the sense that
> >they would have to fight an essentially unwinnable war when the
> >NK forces invaded South and the Chinese lost when the US - SK forces
> >crossed the 38th Parallel into North Korea in the same sense.

	Perhaps, however, if UN decided not to help
	South Korean gov't wouldn't be there would it?
	And we wouldn't be enjoying freedom as we do now, would we?
	Of course, it shouldn't have occurred in first place.
	So much tragedy of such bloodshed and loss of loved one,
	and division of one nation.
	Why should we want such condition in first place.

> > 
> >>What was the reason of North Korean's invasion at
> >>the beginning of the war?  
> >They obviously thought they could win.
> >-Han Kim

	To paraphrase what han said,
	North Korean wanted to unify, in good sense( a terrible choice of word)
	, using force.


			-Sungwoo


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