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Sounds like a podcast worth listening to, thanks for the recommendation.
The Korean War was hugely complicated, my point was that the previous poster compared Palestine’s plight with North Korea, and how North Korea is hesitant to engage. They are still technically at war, and as far as I know, South Korea aren’t occupying or oppressing anything.
Also prior to 1950, South Korea was battling significant North Korean backed insurgency, large numbers of North Korean guérilla fighters fighting out of the South Korean mountains and internal rioting and uprisings. Tension was crazy high.
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The North crossed the border first, it's true, but it is also a lot more complicated than that because the South was conducting extensive pogroms on its territory while loudly proclaiming that they were going to fuck the North up. There's a good podcast about it, Blowback series 3 IIRC.