Re: ROK Army

["DONALD KILMER" <donskil@msn.com>]

If Rhee had been replaced by any other government in the South,
the North still would have invaded and destroyed the South,
unless the South submitted or surrendered.  If the South
had made no responses to the North's attacks across the
border, the North still would have invaded.  Rhee and the
South faced a deadly, uncompromising, genocidal enemy, and the
South attempted to defend themselves, sometimes in non-
democratic ways.

John2, one problem is that the Kim Il-song dynasty are the
biggest murderers in all of Korean history, yet you choose
instead to attack those who defended themselves against
the tyrany and the genocidal murderers.  Some might see
your behavior as slavish.

Another problem is that the mass-murderers are still in
power in Pyongyang.  Are you still frightened of them?

Don


>From: <Jhk78
9@aol.com>
>Reply-To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
>To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
>Subject: Re: ROK Army
>Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:28:18 EST
>
>In a message dated 2/25/2002 5:26:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>donskil@msn.com writes:
>
>
> > The South, for its part, was entirely in a defensive mode, combatting
> > the North's guerilla units in various areas and trying to defend
> > the border.  It had no foreign support for anything.
>
>Wow!
>I know many American people still believe that unfortunately.
>
>But it was most often the ROK Army which
>initiated attacks on the North in 1949 & 1950
>according to reports of US embassy officials.
>ROK defense minister & Rhee openly spoke
>about occupying North within three days.
>
>Who built up and equiped ROK Army?
>What do you mean by making such an
>incredible claim like "it had no foreign support for anything"?
>If Uncle Sam did not provide any economic/military support
>to Rhee, it would not have been even necessary for
>N.K.s to come down. Rhee could have been chased out
>by S.Korean people & the guerrillas before 1950.
>Just remember what happened to Rhee in 1960!
>Thus, K.W. saved his neck for another ten years.
>
>John2
>
>John2




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