POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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It did not want a neighbour that was democratic.
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It wanted to take Korea for itself.
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There were valuable resources in Korea.
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The USA had its military forces at the border and was threatening China.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What were the factors that led the Chinese to decide that they had to enter the war on behalf of North Korea? It has been generally accepted in the west that the Chinese were motivated by a combination of Chinese xenophobic attitudes, security concerns, expansionist tendencies and the communist ideology.
Detailed explanation-2: -In China, the nationalist National Revolutionary Army and the communist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) helped organize Korean refugees against the Japanese military, which had also occupied parts of China.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did the PRC intervene in Korea? The PRC wanted to preserve a North Korean Communist State, but not to dominate it. Instead, the PRC wanted North Korea to serve as a buffer between Manchuria and the US dominated South Korea.
Detailed explanation-4: -Following setbacks sustained by the Korean People’s Army and the crossing of the 38th parallel by the United Nations Command led by the United States Armed Forces, in October 1950 Chinese forces secretly crossed into North Korea in response to security concern of a possible U.S. invasion of Chinese territory.