... the beginning of the Korean War. Traditionally, many have viewed this war as democracy versus communism, the United States against Russia, and as the fight to stop the flow of the "Red Tide". Much of the information regarding the origins of the Korean War is obscure, cloudy, and vague at best, but many scholars have recently begun to draw different conclusions and hypotheses based on their research. This different stance argues that the Korean War was more of a Korean ... civil war, which has its roots in circumstances on the Korean Peninsula that began at least ... ...

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... to be a temporary border but failed negotiations led to the creation of two separate Korean nations. Soon after the withdrawal of Soviet and American forces, North Korea invaded the south thus initiating the Korean War. The North took Seoul in 3 days and advanced as far as Pusan, a coastal city on the far southeast of the peninsula. The United Nations Security Council decided to intervene. The UN forces, composed largely of American troops, pushed ... the North Koreans back near the Chinese border. China, fearing that the UN forces would not stop gaining ground at the Korean border deci...

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... Independence Movement. Since Christian leaders were involved, the military authorities turned on the churches. At Suwon, for example, the Japanese troops surrounded a church filled with believers, set fire to the building and shot those who tried to escape from the burning sanctuary. However, the Independence Movement identified Christianity with Korean nationalism and brought numerous young people into the church. Then came World War II. Over two hundred churches were closed ... and dirty." Besides suffering from Communist oppression, he-like millions of his countrymen-had to undergo t...

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