Question

Why did communist leaders feel they had scored a victory in Korea?

Answer 1

Although Korea is not communist, it's labeled as "Communist in Name Only."

Explanation:

Communist leaders felt victorious because they had successfully spread the idea of communist throughout North Korea. This was progress towards their goal of creating a communist world.

Answer 2

The communistic state of China had defeated the combined forces of the United States and the United Nations to maintain a communistic state in North Korea.

Explanation:

The initial goal was to arm North Korea so that North Korea could conquer the fledgling democratic state of South Korea. There by spreading communism in the goal of world wide dominance of Communism.

The intervention of the United States and the United Nations block ed this goal and threaten to turn North Korea into a part of a united democratic Korea.

The counter intervention of the Chinese drove the forces of the United States and the United Nations back to the original boundaries between North and South Korea. This was seen as a victory of communism and a humiliation of the Western democracies.