Certainly the Soviets helped install Kim Il Sung. But, it is also clear that he had a lot more local support than did the leaders imposed on the south by the US. Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Thursday, May 25, 2000 5:04 PM Subject: Re: seth & defusing korea tensions
>>Brad,
>> Although I think he has overdone some of his rhetoric
>>in this debate, I have to side with Tim on this one. The
>>evidence from Bruce Cumings' work and that of other
>>serious scholars is pretty clear. Both the US and the USSR
>>largely withdrew for a period of time in the late 1940s...
>>Barkley Rosser
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>After the thumb had been heavily put on the choice-of-regime scales
>by both sides...
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>Brad DeLong
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