The Korean Crisis
Following independence on august 2nd the Korean peninsula erupted into conflict in only a few short days. It all started with small scale riots before quickly escalating into raids against rival political factions, with arms streaming in from America, the Soviet Union and former Japanese supply dumps the conflicted erupted into a civil war between heavily armed groups.
Within a matter of days four main groups emerged as the strongest powers in the country. In the south a hastily organised but large Anarchist army named the Black Sun rampaged destroying any semblance of government before moving on to sack and plunder more. Along the entire eastern coastline Kim Il Sung lead a Soviet armed Communist movement which aimed to bring a Leninist government to the peninsula. In the north west Yi Tong Whi’s Democratic Socialist Party established itself and with few external backers they opted to remain on the defensive, relying manly on plundered Japanese arms. Finally in the centre of the county Syngman Rhee ruled a small area mainly around Seoul, he had united all his rivals against him by declaring himself President on August 12th and paid the consequences as he suffered defeat after defeat to the Communists and Anarchists.
With Syngman Rhee on the verge of defeat President Roosevelt made the extraordinary decision to intervene in Korea, having previously warned Germany against getting involved in the conflict on the peninsula, on August 24th 50,000 elite US marines supported by a substantial armoured proponent landed on the southern coastline of Korea. Sweeping the Anarchist armies before them the quickly arrived near Seoul, securing Syngman Rhee’s position for the time being. With this first goal accomplished the Us army turned its attention to the Communists, all but destroying their army at the battle of Teagu on August 28th , following the battle the remnants of the Communist army was forced into a long march north under constant attack from the US air force.
But the American involvement had wider implications for world politics, infuriated Meissner threatened to send in the Reichswehr with orders to engage any enemy (even US troops) in and advance down the Korean peninsula and reaffirmed that as part of the Bombay Pact the US had agreed to leave Korea under German influence alone. Yet Roosevelt’s defence for his actions focused too on the Bombay Pact, part of the Pact agreed military access into the territory of any other Pact member, with Korea being a member of the Pact the US was within its rights to send in an armed force to ‘restore order’.
In response to Roosevelt Oskar Meissner decided to dissolve the Bombay Pact entirely on August 30th. Despite dissolving the Pact Meissner was still keen to renew his alliance with the United Kingdom, but to exclude America from any agreement but Meissner was quickly rebuffed by Churchill who was livid after seeing his masterpiece, the Bombay Pact, destroyed after only a few months. Instead Churchill arrange for a meeting in Ottawa to discuss a possible alliance of the Anglophonic world.
To add fuel to the fire of the Korean Crisis Kim Il Sung negotiated a deal with Yi Tong Whi to united in their control over northern Korea. Yi Tong Whi would be installed as the first President of the People’s Republic of Korea, a Socialist state dedicated to unifying the Korean peninsula, Soviet Foreign Minister, Molotov, was expected to arrive in Pyongyang within a few days to negotiate a formal alliance as several hundred thousand Soviet troops assembled around Vladivostok. Exactly one month after Germany granted Korea independence and the nation looked set to be the stage for a clash between the Soviet Union and United States.
Following independence on august 2nd the Korean peninsula erupted into conflict in only a few short days. It all started with small scale riots before quickly escalating into raids against rival political factions, with arms streaming in from America, the Soviet Union and former Japanese supply dumps the conflicted erupted into a civil war between heavily armed groups.
Within a matter of days four main groups emerged as the strongest powers in the country. In the south a hastily organised but large Anarchist army named the Black Sun rampaged destroying any semblance of government before moving on to sack and plunder more. Along the entire eastern coastline Kim Il Sung lead a Soviet armed Communist movement which aimed to bring a Leninist government to the peninsula. In the north west Yi Tong Whi’s Democratic Socialist Party established itself and with few external backers they opted to remain on the defensive, relying manly on plundered Japanese arms. Finally in the centre of the county Syngman Rhee ruled a small area mainly around Seoul, he had united all his rivals against him by declaring himself President on August 12th and paid the consequences as he suffered defeat after defeat to the Communists and Anarchists.
With Syngman Rhee on the verge of defeat President Roosevelt made the extraordinary decision to intervene in Korea, having previously warned Germany against getting involved in the conflict on the peninsula, on August 24th 50,000 elite US marines supported by a substantial armoured proponent landed on the southern coastline of Korea. Sweeping the Anarchist armies before them the quickly arrived near Seoul, securing Syngman Rhee’s position for the time being. With this first goal accomplished the Us army turned its attention to the Communists, all but destroying their army at the battle of Teagu on August 28th , following the battle the remnants of the Communist army was forced into a long march north under constant attack from the US air force.
But the American involvement had wider implications for world politics, infuriated Meissner threatened to send in the Reichswehr with orders to engage any enemy (even US troops) in and advance down the Korean peninsula and reaffirmed that as part of the Bombay Pact the US had agreed to leave Korea under German influence alone. Yet Roosevelt’s defence for his actions focused too on the Bombay Pact, part of the Pact agreed military access into the territory of any other Pact member, with Korea being a member of the Pact the US was within its rights to send in an armed force to ‘restore order’.
In response to Roosevelt Oskar Meissner decided to dissolve the Bombay Pact entirely on August 30th. Despite dissolving the Pact Meissner was still keen to renew his alliance with the United Kingdom, but to exclude America from any agreement but Meissner was quickly rebuffed by Churchill who was livid after seeing his masterpiece, the Bombay Pact, destroyed after only a few months. Instead Churchill arrange for a meeting in Ottawa to discuss a possible alliance of the Anglophonic world.
To add fuel to the fire of the Korean Crisis Kim Il Sung negotiated a deal with Yi Tong Whi to united in their control over northern Korea. Yi Tong Whi would be installed as the first President of the People’s Republic of Korea, a Socialist state dedicated to unifying the Korean peninsula, Soviet Foreign Minister, Molotov, was expected to arrive in Pyongyang within a few days to negotiate a formal alliance as several hundred thousand Soviet troops assembled around Vladivostok. Exactly one month after Germany granted Korea independence and the nation looked set to be the stage for a clash between the Soviet Union and United States.
