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Tensions flared on the Korean Peninsula in the later 40's over the issue of unification in the same way that tensions flared in Berlin in the late 40's over the issue of the unification of Berlin as the sole capital of East Germany.

The siege of Berlin was broken by the Berlin Airlift, which embarrassed Stalin and the head of East Germany. Stalin wanted the Allies out of Berlin and eventually all of Germany so that Russia could bring all of Germany into the Russian sphere.

Kim Iel Sung was called to visit Stalin in Moscow just prior to the start of the invasion of South Korea to hear Stalin's plans for the invasion, the assignment of Russian planes and pilots to fly the Mig's being sent to the PRK as well as to assure the PRK of Russian financial and logistics support.

This action took place soon after the breaking of the siege of Berlin. Stalin thought that if the PRK invaded South Korea, that the US would not call up the US Army Reserves, as the US had just demobilized tremendously after VJ day. Stalin felt the West was too soft and war weary to undertake a new war.

Stalin believed that the US would choose to withdraw the professional troops facing the Russians, and send them to confront the PRK in Korea. His strategy was that a not too quick but not too long PRK victory in Korea would catch the US with it's army in transit to Korea.

With the US Army out of Germany with all its equipment and the hostilities over in Korea following a North Korean victory, the US would have no choice but to return the Army back to the US, leaving the Communists in power in East Germany, the French and Germans standing alone and the West German government weakened.

Truman decided the Russian were the real threat, and ordered the occupation troops in Japan to build a firewall until the reserves could be called up and dispatched to Korea.

Your articles misses the entire real reason for the Korean War: the unification of Berlin into East Germany and the removal of Allied troops from all of Germany.

Kim Il Sung could never have acted without the approval of Stalin, unless he wanted a quick trip to an underground cell in Moscow's KGB headquarters.

I think you will find the same formula was used for the French Indo-China war in the 50's, the Algerian conflict and the Cuban missile crisis in the 60's and the Vietnam war in the 70's. Nothing happens in a Communist system by "accident"

Interesting theory!