Why did Stalin invade Korea?

Answer 1

To start off, Stalin didn't exactly invade North Korea. The USSR's role during the Korean War was more supportive (although quite a few Russian pilots and artillery men were sent to Korea).

Russia has had an interest in the Korean peninsula for quite a while. During the imperial times, the Tsar Nicholas II sent his troops to the Far East to fend off Japanese from Manchuria and Korean peninsula. The Korean peninsula is located in a strategic location between China and Japan, and also has many ice-free ports that Russia needed.

So when the Japanese Empire surrendered to both the USSR and the US, Stalin and Truman agreed to temporarily split the Korean peninsula into Northern and Southern parts along the 38th parallel. The governments that each of the occupier installed in their part were fiercely nationalistic and both were busy accruing arms to forcefully reunite the country. To further worsen the situation, South Korea's president, Rhee Syngman, was getting very old and set reunification as his goal as the president.

At this time, the United States has been reconsidering its role in the international arena, and switching is primary public policy from isolationism to containment. This containment policy doctrine necessitated the establishment of security perimeter. The security perimeter was construed to include the Aleutian Islands, the Japanese islands, Ryukyus, and the Philippines; this clearly demonstrates that Mainland Asia was out of reach for the United States. Furthermore, the United States withdrew its troops from Korea in June 1949, sending yet a clearer message of US disengagement in the peninsula.

This was picked up by Stalin, who was urged by North Korea's Kim Il-Sung to help him invade South Korea. Seeing that the United States would not intervene and even if it wished, the invasion would have been complete by the time the American troops landed on Korea.

Answer 2

Um under the subject of the Korean War, Kim Ill Sun who fled to Russia because of resisting the Japanese and had a bounty on his head. After WW2 he came back to spread Marxist, obviously with the help of Communist Russia. The Soviet Union and the Allied forces split it at the 38th parallel.

Answer 3

The US never invaded North Korea.

I don't understand where you want to go with this question.

Answer 4

North Korea never invaded Russia.