Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj wrote:
George Z. Bush wrote:

If you knew your history, or were around at the time, you'd know without
being told that the only reason the US was in that "police action" at all
was that the Soviet Union, during those relatively early UN Security Council
days, took a walk during one of their political snits when the subject came
up for discussion. The SC, in their absence, approved UN intervention in
behalf of South Korea; had the Soviet ambassador been present during that SC
discussion, they could easily (and undoubtedly would have) vetoed it, since
they had the right to do that as all original members of the Security
Council could.

Common knowledge.


So, to answer your question, they fought in behalf of North Korea because
North Korea was one of their client states to whom they furnished all kinds
of military equipment and supplies, as well as the training in their use.
They fought for the NKs because they did not want the world to think their
MIG aircraft, in the hands of relatively green NK pilots, couldn't be
competitive with US military equipment. If they could have turned back the
clock, there wouldn't even have been a war, because they'd have prevented it
from happening. That's it, in a nutshell.

George Z.

So you explain, interpret, this as an expression of
simple commercial interests ? ;-)

Only in part. I thought it obvious that everybody would assume that they would
stand up for their ideological bedfellows, and so I didn't think that part of it
was worth mentioning.

(^-^))))

George Z.