Your opinion about Mao Zedong towards his attitude about Korean War?

Question

I 'd like to see your detailed opinion. Thanks.

Answer 1

I have no detailed opinion, but it was a Communist country and Mao felt a responsibility to help a fellow nation against the Imperialistic West.

Answer 2

Well, the origins of the Korean War really started from WW2 in 1945, when the Chinese and the US were fighting off the Japanese that had invaded China and Korea. The Chinese kicked out the Japanese and occupied the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, and the US did the same with the southern half. They met halfway, at a place called the 38th Parallel, and couldn't go any further because they were allies. So they both rebuilt their parts of Korea, the South as a Capitalist Democracy, and the North (after the revolution in China in 1949) as a Communist single-party state.

The Korean War lasted from 1950-53, and was initiated by the UN (mostly by the Western world) after North Korea, a Communist, pro-Chinese nation, invaded South Korea, a Democratic, pro-US nation, in an attempt at something called re-unification. The UN force was mostly made up of the US Army, who subsequently fought the North Koreans back past the 38th Parallel and almost into China.

This happened right in the middle of the Cold War, and Chairman Mao actually spoke to Comrade Stalin and told him that he suspected that the Korean Peninsula, completely occupied by the US, would be the perfect base for them to invade China from. So, a Chinese military force moved into the Korean Peninsula and fought with the UN forces, who subsequently retreated back to South Korea because the Chinese Army is HUGE, and they set up a border area, the Demilitarized Zone, to separate North and South Korea again.

SO that, with all the history, sort of shows what I think Mao's opinion of the Korean War was, that saw it as a threat to his nation's sovereignty and to Communism and the Second World.

Answer 3

Mao really didn't want to get involved. The USSR tricked him into a war that saw a million Chinese get killed. Of course that wasn't his only screw up. He almost starved his own people during the Cultural Revolution.