CHOSIN, a Korean War documentary film by Brian Iglesias

[MrJcenter7]

My grandaddy fought in ww2 and decided to stay in and fought in Korea. At the very end of his career he had his things sent to Vietnam but he told them nope ain't going retired raised hogs and drank himself to his grave in1977 . 55 years old

[melisse1123]

About to watch this on Netflix instant watch after watching the Oscar nominated "Hell and Back Again." Super psyched ^.^ bitly .com/xGlfQy

[lexar26]

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

[90tsunami]

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[carneykid30]

does anyone know what the background theme in this is called?

[Dogmeat1950]

Hey all they are making a movie about this battle, called 17 days of Winter.

[pretzelzetzel]

And yes, God bless those veterans. South Korea is an awesome place to live now. I'm amazed that there is so little recognition for the Korean War. Vietnam has that huge memorial, and Korea gets nothing. It's really shameful. A lot can perhaps be attributed to Truman's ill-fated 'police action' remark.

[Hperman09]

@pretzelzetzel Korea does have a huge memorial dude.

[pretzelzetzel]

comments and promises from American leaders, as well as a lucky string of events in the UN that allowed for such a massive commitment against the North. Even so, later on, by assuming that Chinese and Soviet interests were essentially one and the same, the American's never predicted that the Chinese might get pissed off by seeing thousands of armed men just across the Yalu, and THAT is the major reason why THEY didn't wind up winning the war.

[pretzelzetzel]

And SO, it is easy to understand how some people might want to theorise that it was a calculated plot on the part of the Americans and their allies. However, there is no evidence of this being the case. There IS evidence of Kim asking for and receiving permission from Stalin to launch his attack. None of them thought the Americans would be willing to invest so much to hold on to South Korea. In fact, even the Americans didn't. It was kind of an accident of poorly thought-out and ill-timed..

[pretzelzetzel]

and the worldwide forces of Democracy and Capitalism would absolutely never leave South Korea.

[pretzelzetzel]

that they had merely traded oppressors. Kim built up the economy AND the army staggeringly quickly. Rhee squandered aid money and neglected the military to the point that after Kim invaded it only took his armies 2 months to push all resistance down to a tiny pocket surrounding Busan. From the point of view of international Communism, Kim's attack on South Korean must rank among the absolute top blunders of all time. It ensured, perhaps moreso than any other single factor, that the U.S....

[pretzelzetzel]

opinion of the U.S. Let's make some comparisons:

Kim Il-sung had been an anti-Japanese guerrilla fighter. Syngman Rhee was a wealthy, well-educated, pampered American who had nothing to do with the struggle against Japanese oppression, and nothing in common with regular Koreans. He even reversed his name order to mirror the Western form (Syngman Rhee instead of Lee Seung-man). Kim gave his people a sense that they had regained their country and destiny. Rhee gave his people the sense...

[pretzelzetzel]

You'll notice that Chaing Kai-Shek's China is now the comparatively tiny island of Formosa (the nation we refer to as Taiwan). Not only did the U.S. lose that bet, but they became connected in the Chinese sensibility with the hated Nationalists. The same thing was happening in South Korea: Syngman Rhee, a widely unpopular tyrant, was viciously anti-Communist, and so he got all the money the U.S. could spare. Every time a South Korean got fucked over by Rhee, it detracted a bit from popular...

[pretzelzetzel]

It is true that Kim Il-Sung received permission to invade the South, but it IS ALSO true that the Korean War is probably the only thing that prevented Communism from spreading throughout the entire peninsula. Right after the defeat of Japan, and the partitioning of Korea between Russia and the U.S. for eventual repatriation, the U.S. made the same mistake they'd made in the Chinese civil war - backing an unpopular tyrant for the sole reason that he was not Communist.

[MsTubevoyeur]

Miss my dad, USMC Sergeant Earl C. Kukulka, one of the Chosen Few.

[theblacksheep1000]

God bless all Korean War veterans. You are NOT forgotten!

[nochillarickroller]

Semper Fi, God Bless them all

[goldenmunt]

CHOSIN = jangjin

[FreeGiftOffers]

God Bless the U.S. Marines!!!!

Oorah!!!

[b4mvroxursox]

A word  for the effect and admiration is unfathomable...

[TermaOsEdo]

However, he has repressed with violence - by no means democratic - every single communist activity, imprisoning 14.000 communists and between them were also 14 deputies. Because of the continuous deterioration of the economic situation, the dysphoria was generalized … All these developments did not halter Syngman Rhee in declaring in every way his intention to embody the northern part.

[TermaOsEdo]

Andre Fontaine, for example, although he defends the thesis that Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was responsible for the outbreak of the Korean War, in his historic description of the South Korean Regime, he actually proves that only the Syngman Rhee’s regime had a really strong interest in provoking the war. “The elections that took place in South Korea three months ago – says Andre Fontaine inter alia – gave the majority to the “frightful old man’s” (Syngman Rhee’s) opposition

[TermaOsEdo]

According to the rightist-conservative commentator Olms Alexanter, the minister of Exterior Dean Acheson “doubted that Syngman Rhee was not responsible for the counter-attack of the reds in 1950”. Even the most pureblood anti-communists historians couldn't deny the bellicose and antipeople character of Syngman Rhee’s regime.

[TermaOsEdo]

So, on the first day of the Korean War, at general Macarthur’s headquarters a high ranking member of the American occupying forces in Japan, had an urgent telephone call. When he returned he announced: “Just a few minutes ago we received information of a great importance. The South Koreans invaded North Korea”.

[Dogmeat1950]

@TermaOsEdo umm think you got that the wrong way around lol. South Kore didn't have much of a Military before the war it was very small

[TermaOsEdo]

@Dogmeat1950 The South Korean Regime and the USA had only one option to stop the communists and the popular movement who was getting too strong: To provoke a war against North Korea. South Korea’s Regime was a puppet US-regime. Do not forget that.

[Dogmeat1950]

@TermaOsEdo same with North Korea and Russia, thing is Russia gave North Korea tanks etc etc the USA did not give the South much

[iamJOHNATHANtheSMITH]

@TermaOsEdo do you like making crap up and calling it history?

[HistoryBuff75]

@TermaOsEdo Thanks to Soviet Archives we now know that Kim Sung-Il ask Joseph Stalin for permission to invade the South.

[TermaOsEdo]

In the 30th of May - only four weeks before the beginning of the hostilities - Syngman Rhee had suffered a decisive defeat in the general elections. The South Korean

regime “swayed from lack of confidence, in the same grade inside the country and abroad also”. Confronting a situation which was getting worse day after day, in the last months Syngman Rhee and his minister were regularly threatening to invade North Korea, declaring that they were ready “to occupy Pyongyang in a few days”.

[TermaOsEdo]

Who started the war? “Among them - writes David Horowitz - who had an apparent benefit from a “hot incident” and the subsequent military intervention of the United States, were Chiang Kai-shek and Lee Seung-Man, whose dominion was getting extremely unstable”. Syngman Rhee undoubtedly would benefit from an American military intervention in the peninsula.

[lordmyhealer]

Koreans will be always grateful for all the U.N. soldiers who fought and suffered for Korea. Their bravery and sacrifice will always be treasured.

[csrtitus]

Very good video. When do you think the whole documentary will be completed?