Lol come on dude… they were literally the aggressors. Maybe don’t start a fucking war if you don’t want your civilians injured and killed during war. It also wasn’t even close to the same as it is now. There weren’t guided munitions and civilian deaths were unfortunately very common during that time. Just look at WWII in Europe or the Pacific. MacArthur was 100% wrong in pushing past the 38th parallel and disobeying a presidential order, but to say that the US was committing an atrocity while defending a country which was being invaded and weren’t the aggressors, is in my view an intellectually dishonest view of conflict. Not to mention that the North was shelling major cities in South Korea which killed scores of civilians and attempted a land invasion of those same areas (which also resulted in scores of civilian deaths as they killed anyone suspected of sympathizing with the UN force).

The South Korean government at the time were autocratic, and were no saints; they committed their own atrocities. The north organized and invaded South Korea by pre-planning with the soviets and China. They also supported the insurgency in the south prior to the actual outbreak of war both with North Korean fighters and by supplying weapons and trainers. It was an organized offensive by the north to bring the south in to the “workers revolution”.

There were a similar number of civilian deaths on both sides of the Korean War. With approximately 245 thousand South Korean civilian casualties and 282 thousand North Korean civilian casualties. These are estimations and the best numbers I could find. So you can hardly call out the United States as committing “atrocities” against civilians without also claiming the same for the North Koreans/Chinese and Soviets, unless you’re being intellectually dishonest and have an agenda. The North was infamous for killing villagers on their retreat who they’d suspected of helping the UN forces. The South was infamous for killing their own citizens they suspected of harboring communist sympathies. They both committed atrocities.

As harmful as war is, to all involved. I don’t believe you can hold people accountable during that time for bombing campaigns. What was the alternative? They didn’t have guided munitions. In todays world I think you can absolutely hold countries accountable for civilian bombing, the U.S. included due to the high accuracy munitions available today.

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