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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (24293)	12/1/2007 1:20:52 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

It was called a police action, but it was a war. It doesn't matter if it was declared, a war doesn't become something else because you put a different label on it. In any case that wasn't the objection that he made. He wasn't saying "its not a war because it wasn't declared" but rather "its not a war because it wasn't in direct defense of the US". That's a really silly thought. I do not recall ever being told that the Northern part of Korea was wealthier than the South prior to the Kim kleptocracy. It had more industry. The South was undeveloped. Apparently the Japanese (who ruled Korea before and during WWII) put more development effort in to the North, then when the communists took over the USSR sent some resources to the north. In the South the economy was more dependent on agriculture.