Re: The Hidden History of the Korean War

["Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>]

>He makes the point that Russia didn't really want to help Nk because they <
> were afraid NK wouldn't stop at SK but would invaded Japan and start
WWIII.<

Interesting comment...same thing was said about Kennedy and Kruschev during
the Missile Crisis.
A friend of mine that worked for the Sargent Shrivers and Pres Kennedy
stated that Kruschev and Kennedy had to engineer a peaceful solution as the
Military Leaders on both sides were pitching for a fight.

Seemed that Stalin was of the same mentality and explains why he provided
limited support.to NK and Chinese.  All of it Fighters, training and keeping
his pilots hand in air combat.  The Russian pilots did no ground attacking
from any history data I have seen.

Interesting because Ground Attacking was a Russian specialtiy during WW2.
They lost a lot of plane but they killed a bunch of German/Axix soldiers and
equipment.

DF

----- Original Message -----
From: <RonaldS842@aol.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: The Hidden History of the Korean War


> Hi all-
>
>    Over 100 pages into the book now and Stone is still confused as to how
a
> major invasion by NK could have taken place as a complete surprise by
> America, Russia, South Korea and China. He says it takes 30 days or more
of
> troop movements, etc. to prepare for an invasion of this magnitude and no
one
> was expecting it. As a matter of fact there were papers circulating that
it
> could not happen.
>    One the other hand he suspects conspiracies which include Chiang, Rhee,
> MacArthur, Willowby, Dulles, Truman and a few others. My question is that
> with such a widespead conspiracy, with everyone in on it, how in the world
> could it have been hushed up so much. He makes the point that the invasion
> was on a Sunday, same as Pearl Harbor. Stone raises a lot of good
questions.
>    He makes the point that Russia didn't really want to help Nk because
they
> were afraid NK wouldn't stop at SK but would invaded Japan and start
WWIII.
>
> MTF
>
> Ron
>