There are clips on youtube which give some background on the Korean war. In at least one of them, it is alleged that 1) the communist leader would have won an election of all Koreans prior to the war and that the south or the US refused to have such elections; and 2) the South Koreans had been torturing and killing dissidents and communists in the south prior to the war, and that these actions may have led to the war, in whole or in part. Did I misunderstand? I was probably doing or listening to other things at the same time!