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...Rhee...
...Moscow or Washington for turning Korea into the first hot conflict of the cold war. Kim Il Sung, however, had reason to want such a war. He had always preached that war was the only way to unify the peninsula and drive out the U.S.-backed regime of Syngman Rhee in Seoul. Furthermore, it would bolster his stature against other Korean communists who were urging different ways to unite the country...
...were ready to join his revolutionary forces. He also reinforced his Soviet patron's belief that the U.S. would never intervene in a Korean conflict. If the Americans would not help the Nationalist Chinese against Mao's forces, he argued, why would they come to the aid of Syngman Rhee? Kim won massive Soviet military assistance, inheriting all the weapons of the Soviet 25th Army, including those confiscated from Japan's defeated armies in the region...
Elected to the Iota Chapter were Rebecca M.Boggs '95, Amy N. Finkelstein '95, Lila M.Guterman '95, Jagsi, Light, Theresa W. Lynn '95,Annamaria F. Magpayo '95, Debor-ah M. Mitchell'95, Jean M. Ou '95, Reshmi Rabindranathan '95,Elisabeth M. Remy '95 and Ina P. Rhee...
...trouble, he just wants to talk about what happened," Rhee said...