"Korean War - Open Questions" Topic

"The Korean War was experienced in different ways by different people. Much of the literature about the war in the United States focuses on the experiences of a relatively predictable set of actors: political and military leaders and U.S. combat forces. When bookstores and public libraries have any books on the Korean war at all, they tend to be military histories that are written from the American perspective. They focus primarily on U.S. strategic thinking or the combat experience of American forces.

While the new international history of the war that developed in the 1990s expanded on this perspective by incorporating the communist world, much of it was still focused on political elites – Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin and the like. Missing from these elite-driven histories is a sense of the war's traumatizing impact on those who felt it most viscerally: the Korean people.

For three years, the Korean War turned the entire Korean peninsula into a ghastly war zone. Millions perished and violence was endemic. The waves of retaliation and counter retaliation carried out by leftist and rightist partisans in many areas rent the fabric of Korean society so badly that it took decades to recover. Even those who survived had their lives shattered, their property destroyed, and their opportunities narrowed. Historians have been far slower to turn their attention to these more human dimensions of the war…"
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Yes … many nations under the UN flag fought and defended against the North's & the PRC's aggression. In an attempt at turning all of Korea into a "Workers' Paradise". The war is only at the stage of a truce, it is not over. Interestingly today the North has almost as many MBTs the US does. Both just over 6000+.

North Korea – 6045

South Korea – 2614

US – 6289

The North continues to[try to] make deployable nuclear weapons.

That being said for years after the war South Korea was in a very bad condition. But as time when on with the USA's assistance it is one of the best economies in the region.

The North still under the PRC's [and even Russia's at times] support. At last report, 40% of the North's population is starving and living in substandard conditions, etc. Plus the North runs "camps" like the PRC …

Both appears to be run by criminal governmental organizations … with no end in sight …