Discuss the Role of Soviet Union in the Outbreak of Korean War

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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_262How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Korean War; Soviet-Korean relations; Soviet-US relations; Soviet-China relations

Abstract

In June 1950, the Korean War broke out, profoundly affecting the landscape of East Asia and the China-Soviet-US triangle. The war thus became an important point in the history of the Cold War. This study will take the origins of the Korean War as its research theme. Using archival research and case studies, it will draw on government diplomatic archives, memoirs and scholarly commentary etc., to explore the role played by the Soviet Union, the leader of the socialist camp at the time, and the Soviet-Korean and Soviet- China interactions at the time in relation to the launching of the Korean War. The study points out that, given the importance of the Soviet Union to the North Korea at the time and the North Korea's dependence on it, the North Korea needed the approval of the Soviet Union to wage the war. At the same time, changes in US-Soviet and Sino-Soviet relations, as well as Kim Il Sung's confidence in the rapid completion of the reunification of the Korean peninsula allowed Stalin to eventually agree to this decision by North Korea.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rui Xue
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Discuss the Role of Soviet Union in the Outbreak of Korean War
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2278
EP  - 2285
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_262
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_262
ID  - Xue2022
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