From the VFP Korea Peace Campaign: The USA in Korea
After dividing Korea into two arbitrarily at the end of WW II, the U.S. military has been more or less occupying South Korea since 1945. Uncle Sam established a U.S. military government in South Korea for three years, set up a separate regime in the South in 1948, and intervened in the Korean civil war, 1948-53, destroying the entire country with heavy, indiscriminate bombing raids.
The terrible war was stopped with a cease-fire only in 1953. Thereafter, the U.S. brought in its nuclear weapons into South Korea in 1958 in violation of the Armistice Agreement-- igniting an intense arms race with North Korea. The U.S. military troops in South Korea number about 30,000 -- which cost us billions of dollars each year that are solely needed at home. From 1950, the U.S. also imposed and maintains heavy economic sanctions on North Korea. The tragic Korean War is still continuing today without a peace treaty.
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