I write this post only to address a specific point of history.
I have no interest whatsoever in any personal communication with "Briarroot".

Briarroot wrote in message ... (to Jerome Bibuld):
Jerome Bibuld wrote:
(snipped)
As for the U.S. invasion of Korea, begun on 25 June 1950, (almost
immediately after John Foster Dulles FLEW away from the North/South
Korea border), I concede that it would be impossible to get her/him/it
even to look at documentation of others than her/his/its preferred U. S.
propaganda sources.

You poor backward simpleton. It may have escaped your notice (!) that the
US Army was *already* occupying southern Korea as a result of taking over
from the defeated Japanese after World War 2. US troops came under fire on
June 25th, 1950 because the North Koreans, with the encouragement of
Communist China, attacked southward....

According to Bevin Alexander, a former official historian for the United States
Army, the notion that the Chinese Communists encouraged a North Korean invasion
of South Korea is "almost certainly" a myth.

"The standard American view was that the Russians egged on the North Koreans
to attack, and that the Russians miscalculated the American response. Although
this theory grew out of the general theory that all communist states were
jointly conspiring against the West, it contained an element of logic. It was
senseless for the North Koreans to risk such a hazardous play with no stronger
hole card than an expressed American policy of nonintervention. This was the
reason for much of the anxiety and uncertainty in Washington and other Western
capitals: Western leaders couldn't believe the North Koreans would have attacked
unless they had assurances that Russia or Red China or both would come to their
aid if the Americans did intervene....

Indeed, if North Korea had such an assurance, it was *never* honored. Far more
likely is that North Korean leaders believed, if they got into trouble, the
Soviet Union or Red China would feel compelled to move to their aid. In fact,
the Soviet Union never made the slightest effort to do so, ignoring even a
U.S. Air Force attack on a Siberian airfield, mistakenly thought by the pilots
to be within North Korea. And Red China's motivations were *unrelated* to
saving the North Korean leaders' necks, but rather to protecting China from
possible American aggression.

There is no evidence the Soviet government actually instigated the invasion.
Rather, the evidence seems preponderant that the North Koreans planned it, and
that the Russians, when informed, went along, hoping with the North Koreans
that the Americans would stay out....

Khrushchev's memories of the course of the war itself contain factual errors.
Whether his memories of Stalin-Kim (Il Sung) and Stalin-Mao talks are more
accurate is impossible to determine....

The case for Chinese Communist involvement in the attack rests *entirely* on
Khrushchev's statement that Stalin consulted with Mao before the attack.
In fact, the Red Chinese could have had *no reason whatsoever to encourage*
adventures in the Far East until they had completed the conquest of Taiwan.
The Reds probably would have launched their attack on the island in the summer
of 1950 if the Korean War had not intervened. Therefore, Chinese advice, if
asked, *almost certainly* would have been *negative*."

--Bevin Alexander (Korea: the First War We Lost, pp. 21-3)

'If we act only for ourselves, to neglect the study of history is not prudent;
if we are entrusted with the care of others, it is not just.'
--Samuel Johnson (Rasselas)

--Nick