What justification dd the North Koreans offer for their attack on South Korea?
1 Answer
The North Koreans justified their attack on the South by the desire of the Korean people to be independent and unified.
Explanation:
Korea had been ruled harshly by Japan since 1904. The Korean people felt that with the defeat of Japan in World War II their country would finally be free and unified.
The political and ideological conflicts between the Western powers and the communists powers frustrated the Koreans desires for one country free from foreign domination.
At the end of the fighting in World War II the Russians took control of the northern part of Korea while the US took control of the southern part. The division of the country made the Koreans unhappy.
The United Nations tried to solve the problem by declaring that there should be an election. The US promoted Rhee a nationalist that had fled Japanese controlled Korea in 1907. The Russian refused to allow the northern Koreans to vote.
The South elected Rhee by 80%. Communist agitators in the south were arrested and imprisoned. The North refused to recognize the electrons in the south and decried the "oppression of the illegitimate election in the south.
With the withdrawal of US forces after the election the south looked easy to conquer. The Russians supplied the North with tanks armored vehicles and training.
The Northern Korean forces attacked to " unified the Korean peninsula
