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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.
What else can I help you with?
Why did Stalin give North Korea permission to invade South Korea?
no one has to get any permission to invade a country!
Whose agreement to invade South Korea did Kim II Sung seek?
Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union
What influence soviet union and US in Korean war?
Joseph Stalin armed the North Koreans and urged them to invade South Korea in 1950. The Korean War ended when Stalin died in 1953.
What countries did Stalin invade when Germany invaded Poland?
stalin attacked on one side of poland and also invaded FINLAND :)
What expansionist nation was the first to invade Korea?
Japan
Why did Stalin give North Korea permission to invade South Korea?
no one has to get any permission to invade a country!
Whose agreement to invade South Korea did Kim II Sung seek?
Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union
Stalin's impact in America?
Stalin urged the North Koreans to invade South Korea. Result: The Korean War (1950-1953). Stalin died in 1953.
What influence soviet union and US in Korean war?
Joseph Stalin armed the North Koreans and urged them to invade South Korea in 1950. The Korean War ended when Stalin died in 1953.
Why did Hitler invade North Korea?
Hitler did not invade North Korea.
What country invade South Korea?
North Korea.
Why did Adolph Hitler invade Stalin?
beacause he was crule
Who did Stalin fear would invade Russia?
Germany
Did the Mongolians invade Korea?
Aama.
Did Adolph Hitler invade Stalin?
You can't invade a person; he attempted to invade Russia via Stalingrad. But, as with all attempts at invading Russia, it failed.
What was the US 's mission in Korea?
invade korea and fight against ussr
Why did Josef Stalin Invade Afghanistan?
Stalin never invaded Afghanistan. But the USSR did under the leadership of Lenoid Brezhev 30 years after Stalin's death.
