The causes of the Korean War are going to be discussed as well as the two theoretical reasons that led North Korea to actually attack South Korea. In order to get a thorough understanding of what led North Korea to want to attack South Korea, some background of the Korean Conflict will be first discussed. The one simple thing that is the sole cause of disputes in Korea has to do with the thirty-eighth parallel (Chang 19). The issue of the thirty-ninth parallel goes back to the conclusion of World War …show more content…
The first reason the North Koreas attacked the South Koreans was because they thought they were overall stronger than South Korea in terms of manpower, alliances, and by weapons power. The North Koreans saw themselves as inferior to the South Koreans and did not really get scared of them. This is due to the fact that they had more supplies than the South Koreans. They had them beat numerically; they had 242 T-34 tanks, fifty-four armored carriers, and 210 aircraft (Chang 37). The South only had twenty-seven amour carriers to the North’s fifty-seven. In addition to the weaponry advantage, the North Korean military was far more trained, as they already had their division training completed while South Korea only had its company-level training completed (Chang 37). With all of those numbers, the North Koreans truly felt confident that they would win an easy war against the south if they were to attack. Lastly, the Koreans felt they were stronger than South Korea because they felt they had more support than they did. North Korea knew they had the Soviet Union’s support and eventually China’s support, and the North Koreans thought in their minds that South Korea would not have any allies (Chang 10). The only ally that had thought would help them would be the United States. However, the North Koreans did not think