The history is a bit more complicated then that.
Korea was occupied by Japan for like 20 years and then arbitrarily divided after WW2.
There were people committees formed in the aftermath that were largely anti-collabrator, pro-peasant/worker and wanted land reform.
The American and Soviet occupations both tried to deal with them and while I don’t know if the Soviet’s handling of it was perfect they did make some attempts to integrate them while the Americans and the south outlawed them.
What happened in Korea was and is much closer to a civil war than an invasion of a foreign force, especially in 1950.
It's garbage; the source is a self published book by someone who describes themselves as an "independent economist".
Rhee Syngman had ambitions of conquering the North and reuniting Korea, but they were no more than dreams and the ROK Army wasn't remotely prepared for offensive action in 1950.
a further explanation provided by another person if you want it:
There are several basic errors contained within the tweet thread (and in the screenshots), but the biggest tell is that the source claims the mobilization of only six of fifteen divisions by North Korea in their initial offensive is proof that North Korea could not have started the war. This is, of course, nonsense and the much more likely explanation is that mobilization is difficult particularly with underdeveloped infrastructure. Hardly any country ever met the full mobilization tables on time. There's also some intentional misrepresentation of quotes: Gunther quotes Syngman Rhee stating "We started the fight in the first place in the hope that Communism would be destroyed" as proof that South Korea started the fight. This is again absurd, this quote is pretty obviously saber-rattling and rhetorical flourish and not some indication that Rhee literally started the fight. Similar quotes can be found by leaders of nations at war in WWI and WWII that very obviously did not start the war in question. Finally, they cite UN assessments that North Korea couldn't have launched an offensive in 1950 as proof. This again is absurd. The UN and its predecessor The League of Nations had repeatedly failed intelligence estimates of force and still regularly fail to anticipate conflicts!
The overall sense is that this is someone who started with a thesis (and, unsurprisingly, the thesis seems to be USA bad, enemies of USA always good and blameless) and subsequently found sources that could be interpreted to agree with the thesis, rather than looking comprehensively at the evidence and making a thesis from that.
SK started the fighting and through massacres (even commited like 80% of them during the war) and even if they didnt NK was absolutely justified in trying to liberate half of their country
uhhhh the north invaded the south. yeah what america did was obviously bad but they didn't make north korea invade the south
The history is a bit more complicated then that. Korea was occupied by Japan for like 20 years and then arbitrarily divided after WW2.
There were people committees formed in the aftermath that were largely anti-collabrator, pro-peasant/worker and wanted land reform.
The American and Soviet occupations both tried to deal with them and while I don’t know if the Soviet’s handling of it was perfect they did make some attempts to integrate them while the Americans and the south outlawed them.
What happened in Korea was and is much closer to a civil war than an invasion of a foreign force, especially in 1950.
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so i have been told that the tweet is garbage.
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a further explanation provided by another person if you want it:
ok thanks for providing a source. im a bit iffy learning history from randos on the internet though.
fighting off an imperialist military force on occupied land is invading?
SK started the fighting and through massacres (even commited like 80% of them during the war) and even if they didnt NK was absolutely justified in trying to liberate half of their country