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==Korean War==

==Korean War==

On January 12, 1950, President [[Harry Truman]]'s [[Deep State]] [[Secretary of State]] [[Dean Acheson]] gave his carefully written "defensive perimeter" speech at the National Press Club, which [[Communist]]s interpreted as allowing Communist [[North Korea]] to invade [[South Korea]].  Acheson's speech notably excluded South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and Taiwan (the Republic of China) from the defensive perimeter that extended from [[Japan]]’s Ryukyu Islands to the [[Philippines]]. As explained by the ''World Tribune'':

On January 12, 1950, President [[Harry Truman]]'s [[Deep State]] [[Secretary of State]] [[Dean Acheson]] gave his carefully written "defensive perimeter" speech at the National Press Club, which [[Communist]]s interpreted as allowing Communist [[North Korea]] to invade [[South Korea]].  Acheson's speech notably excluded South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and Taiwan (the Republic of China) from the defensive perimeter that extended from [[Japan]]’s Ryukyu Islands to the [[Philippines]]. As explained by the ''World Tribune'':<ref>https://www.worldtribune.com/dean-achesons-fateful-speech-and-the-outbreak-of-the-korean-war-on-june-25-1950/</ref>

{{cquote|According to Soviet eyewitness accounts made available after the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s, Acheson’s speech was rushed to Stalin’s desk for a careful study. Stalin then immediately held secret deliberations with Mao, who had been in the USSR since late December 1949, about the seemingly changed military assessment concerning Korea. [North Korea dictator Kim Il-Sung] had been begging Stalin to approve his plan to attack South Korea, only to be repeatedly rejected by him on account of an assumed American military response. But only two weeks after Acheson’s speech, as the post-Soviet Union archival releases have indicated, on January 30, 1950, Stalin finally issued a general approval for Kim Il-Sung to launch the attack on the South.<ref>https://www.worldtribune.com/dean-achesons-fateful-speech-and-the-outbreak-of-the-korean-war-on-june-25-1950/</ref>}}

{{cquote|According to Soviet eyewitness accounts made available after the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s, Acheson’s speech was rushed to Stalin’s desk for a careful study. Stalin then immediately held secret deliberations with Mao, who had been in the USSR since late December 1949, about the seemingly changed military assessment concerning Korea. [North Korea dictator Kim Il-Sung] had been begging Stalin to approve his plan to attack South Korea, only to be repeatedly rejected by him on account of an assumed American military response. But only two weeks after Acheson’s speech, as the post-Soviet Union archival releases have indicated, on January 30, 1950, Stalin finally issued a general approval for Kim Il-Sung to launch the attack on the South.}}

Omar Bradley blamed Truman and Acheson in his memoir ''A General's Life'', and historian Bill Shinn concurs.<ref>A General's Life by Omar N. Bradley, pg. 528</ref><ref>The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea: 1950-1953: A War Correspondent's Notebook & Today's Danger in Korea by Bill Shinn, pg. 52</ref> During his address to the UN General Assembly, Truman said, “The men who laid down their lives for the United Nations in Korea will have a place in our memory, and in the memory of the world, forever. They died in order that the United Nations might live.”<ref>https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/io/potusunga/207324.htm</ref>

Omar Bradley blamed Truman and Acheson in his memoir ''A General's Life'', and historian Bill Shinn concurs.<ref>A General's Life by Omar N. Bradley, pg. 528</ref><ref>The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea: 1950-1953: A War Correspondent's Notebook & Today's Danger in Korea by Bill Shinn, pg. 52</ref> During his address to the UN General Assembly, Truman said, “The men who laid down their lives for the United Nations in Korea will have a place in our memory, and in the memory of the world, forever. They died in order that the United Nations might live.”<ref>https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/io/potusunga/207324.htm</ref>