China’s recent attempts to influence the Korean War’s discourse, the Chinese Communist Party’s General Secretary Xi Jinping claimed that China resisted the imperialists’ aggression and expansion during the Korean War at the so-called “Anti-US Aid to the DPRK Memorial Conference” on March 23, and also emphasized that “the Chinese people are not to be messed with,” which made the two Koreas and the U.S. dumbfounded.
According to Yonhap News, the South Korean Foreign Ministry, in addition to emphasizing that the Korean War was caused by the North Korean invasion first, also said that it will closely monitor the relevant trends and is communicating with the Chinese side to take necessary measures to address South Korea’s concerns; some analysts believe that China made the relevant statement first to emphasize that “the responsibility for the war lies with the U.S.” and that it is a warning from China to the U.S., which is engaged in a confrontation.
In addition to the South Korean Foreign Ministry’s rebuttal of the CCP’s claim, U.S. State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus tweeted yesterday that the CCP’s claim that the war “broke out” 70 years ago “is in fact the result of North Korea’s June 1950 war with the support of Mao Zedong. 25 invaded South Korea. When the free nations fought back, the Chinese Communist Party sent hundreds of thousands of troops across the Yalu River, causing devastation on the Korean Peninsula.”
The Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950, when North Korean troops, supported by the Soviet Union and China, crossed the 38th Armistice Line and invaded South Korea, reaching as far south as Pusan until the United States-led United Nations (a multinational coalition supporting the government of the Republic of Korea after the outbreak of the Korean War) launched the “Inchon Landing” on September 15, 1950. After cutting the supply line of the North Korean army, the North Korean army was driven back north of the 38th parallel and approached the border between China and North Korea. The Chinese communist authorities secretly dispatched the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army (CPVA) on October 25 to “fight against the U.S. and aid North Korea” and pushed the battle line back to the 38th armistice line. The Armistice Agreement formally ended the Korean War.
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