Consequences of Korean War
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- Consequences of the Korean War
- Impact on Korea
- Horrendous suffering. Approx 10% of entire Korean population was reported as missing, wounded or killed.
- Civilian population of North Korea decreased from 9 to 7 million due to death and emigration.
- Korea still divided = war a futile tragedy
- North Korea
- Essentially the same as in 1950; brutal, primitive dictatorship with a low standard of living.
- Despite, changes to patrons, China and Russia, North Korea is "locked in a Stalinist time warp"
- South Korea
- Remained an authoritarian state for many years, under Rhee till 1960 then army,
- Democracy slowly developed over time, as did prosperity.
- Horrendous suffering. Approx 10% of entire Korean population was reported as missing, wounded or killed.
- Impact on Japan
- Major beneficiary of the Korean War; benefited from US spending on the war
- Japan recipient of much direct US defence spending. By 1954, Japanese defence industry earned 3 billion dollars from sales
- Korean War was massive stimulus for economic recovery and contributed to prosperity which underpinned its growing democracy.
- Japanese prime minister claimed that the war was 'the grace of heaven' due to its benefits to Japan.
- Impact on People's Republic of China
- Human cost
- Over 150,000 troops killed. Made Peng Dehuai realise that China needed a more technologically advanced army.
- Economic cost
- Cost of war was crushing to poor country
- US hostility to Communist China was greater than ever and ensured Communist China's continued exclusion from joining the UN.
- Success for China
- Mao saw war as a success on balance.
- War had justified repression and removal of all those who might challenge a new regime. Mao had made his mark on Korea.
- Mao saw war as a success on balance.
- Human cost
- Impact on Korea
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