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(07-24-2017, 03:20 PM)Dill Wrote: I am a bit puzzled by your reading of the Korean situation. The US and the Soviets both occupied the Korean peninsula after WWII. Immediately after the war, the Americans drew the line between North and South for administrative purposes.  Two years later, the South then declared a government and the North followed suit. Each government had a roughly equal claim to legitimacy, each claim supported by an Allied victor of WWII.

The importance of Dien Bien Phu is that that victory legitimized the Vietminh and Ho Chi Minh as liberators of Vietnam and their DRV as the legitimate representative of the Vietnamese people. This was in the eyes of most of the rest of the world and the great majority of the Vietnamese.   No one "stole" the North from the South. The Vietnamese, represented by the Vietminh/DRV, took Vietnam, the whole of Vietnam, back from the French.

We sort of stepped in after Dien Bien Phu before Ho Chi Mihn had an opportunity to take the whole country. Hence, they weren't really the liberators of the "whole country". We did that on purpose because.... communists!!!! Dominoes!!! Argghhhh!!!!