As tensions between the North and the South grew many attacks across the 38th parallel began to take place during the summer of 1949, these attacks were initiated by the South. ... (p. 107) Also Jon Halliday and Cummings both claimed that Rhee had ordered his forces to launch an attack across the parallel before dawn on June 25, 1950 to "provoke a communist invasion and prompt U.S military intervention." (p. 107) Once the North Koreans attacked, they marched quickly across the southern part of the peninsula taking the capital Seoul along the way and pushed the US forces to the Pusan ...

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