What act triggered the Korean War?

US violations of the Yalta, Cairo and Potsdam agreements on Korea, plus violations of the UN charter and international law.

A) Rearming the Japanese troops on entry to Korea in 1945 to act as police.

B) Rearming the Kempetei (Japanese equivalent of the Gestapo).

C) Giving power to collaborators of the Japanese.

D) Not allowing free elections to take place on/before 1948.

E) Installing the right-wing anti-communist dictator, Sygnam Rhee into power.

F) Illegally declaring the US sector of Korea the "Republic of South Korea" in violation of the Potsdam, Cairo and Yalta agreements, international law and the UN charter.

G) Rearming the south in violation of those same agreements and laws.

It wasn't a war. It was a UN Peace Enforcement Mission organized and directed by the UN Security Council within the authority granted it by Chapter Seven of the UN Charter and was in reaction to North Korea invading South Korea on June 25, 1950.

Give the 10 to Michael W.

---54 years as a free citizen of an anti-totalitarianist country. And, like my ancestors who ran into Inchon, and marched out of Chosen, ended slavery in North America, and tossed the King's tea overboard, I see that South Koreans work and produce, and North Koreans just slave away, starve, and escape whenever they can.

North Korea invaded South Korea

Communism.Stalin..Russia ..Berlin airlift.....we were terrified that the "Reds" would begin to take over the world..."Domino Theory" One country goes, they all go.