RES: Korea's blessing

[Brad De Long]

>In message <a04310104b57e9dadc950@[128.32.105.158]>, Brad De Long
><delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> writes
>>No I don't. Stalin let slip the leash--and so started a war.
>
>Most historians writing on this see the North Korean Workers Party as
>having more independence than the average Stalinist organisation.
>Krushchev blamed Kim Il Sung for dragging them into the war.

Are you saying that the weapons Stalin shipped to North Korea in the 
year before the Korean War started in June 1950 were--in Stalin's 
mind--intended for *defensive* use only? Are you saying that Kim Il 
Sung would have launched his attack had his tank strength not been 
greatly multiplied?

Brad DeLong