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North Korean invasion came as an alarming surprise to American officials. As far as they were concerned, this was not simply a border dispute between two unstable dictatorships on the other side of the globe.
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Korean war began with 750000 soldiers with Koreans people poured across the 38th parallel
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Americans and the Soviets to decide what should be done with their enemy’s imperial possessions.
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If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war.
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President Truman and his advisers decidedly did not want: They were sure that such a war would lead to Soviet aggression in Europe