Stalin asked Mao Zedong to contribute troops to North Korea, and UN forces were soon overpowered. Shi Zhe of the Beijing Foreign Ministry explains that China refused to tolerate a potentially aggressive U.S.-led force near the Chinese border. Lee Jae Jeon of the South Korean army and Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bussey state that when the UN troops crossed the thirty-eighth parallel, they anticipated victory, not expecting that China would become involved. South Korean marine Chea Yong Chu describes the sea invasion of the North by American and South Korean marines, planned by MacArthur when the South was near defeat in the land war. In fact, as North Korean nurse Kim Ren Ok recalls, the Northerners expected to win the war any day. However, as General Paik Sun Yup of the South Korean Army explains, the Communists had already captured the Southern capital of Seoul, and the Southerners were in retreat. After a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, General Douglas MacArthur led UN troops into what was expected to be an easily won war. State Department notes that because the North Korean aggression relied on Soviet aid, the invasion was seen in the direct context of the Cold War. Assistant Secretary of State Lucius Battle recalls the alarmed reactions in the United States when North Korea invaded the South, and Han Pyo Wook of the South Korean Embassy in Washington remembers that President Rhee called him asking for U.S. Joseph Stalin eventually authorized Sung's invasion of South Korea. Yan Von Sik of the North Korean army describes the war as started to liberate the South from the western world for the good of Korea. As Colonel Peter Simchenkov of the Soviet High Command explains, Sung needed the support of the Soviet Union in order to unify Korea under communist leadership. and Soviet troops withdrew, Syngman Rhee was established as president in the Western influenced South, Kim Il Sung was established as leader of the communist North, and both leaders began to think of a united Korea. With the end of World War II came the end of Japanese occupation of Korea, and Korea was divided between the United States and the Soviet Union. This episode chronicles the Korean War from 1949 to 1953.
#The cold war cnn documentary episode 21 series
This series consists of interviews and archival footage, accompanied by historical narration by Kenneth Branagh.
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The fifth in this twenty-four-part documentary series examining the events of the Cold War, from 1917 to the early 1990s.