re: #656 000G

Wasn’t the Korean War America’s first anti-communist war, waged on ideological grounds?

Ideological grounds for many, or just geopolitics, smoothing out the rubble of the WWII endgame. (Information from the North is not as tightly controlled as sometimes thought. The armistice and preceding invasions caused a great intermingling of Northern and Southern extended families who ‘kept in touch’. Our neighbors in Seoul were from the North, and did not suffer much disadvantage or ostracism—could marry well.)