American Influence On North Korea

On June 27th, 1950, the American people and the world were addressed by president Truman that america would be intervene in the conflicts in Korea between the communist north and the republic south. Our main intentions were to stop the spread of communism once again like in Berlin, but this time in the asian countries. We had believed that just like before in germany the soviets were to blame for spreading the communism further. They had inflicted North Korea to become a state of communism and over time the Soviets influence left North Korea wanting to spread their views in the same way. The dawn of June 25th, 1950, about ninety thousand North Korean troops marched through the boundary lines between the Northern and Southern countries, invading South Korea. …show more content…
they had no say in stopping the decision of America fighting in stopping North Korea. On June 30th, 1950 president Truman, after careful deliberation decided to send american ground troops to fight in Korea. For most of the beginning of the war the American troops helped greatly and were holding on strong. When China came into help the their allies it through america off their game and the war was set back on our part. With the fighting continuing China backed out with the threats of America bombing. And in 1951 the fight was brought back to the boundary lines where it would be fought for the remainder of the war. On July 27th , 1953 after battling for years and millions of lives lost the fighting came to a halt. After negotiating an armistice was signed, ending the war. The boundary lines were restored to the original placements as before in 1945. With a total of 150,000 troops from america, South korea, and the U.N. troops falling victim to the war. On the communist side roughly 800,000 perished in the fighting. And over a million civilians combined lost their lives. In America’s eyes intervening was a success because we helped stop the spread of another communist country and showed off our