What’s the context? 25 June 1950: outbreak of the Korean War
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
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The outbreak of the Korean War on 25 June 1950 caught Western governments by surprise, despite warning signs. Western strategists had assumed that North Korea was a Soviet puppet, and that no one wanted a war.