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This is C-SPAN's Lectures in History podcast. This week, a class about the Korean War, taught by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Joseph Glattar.

The class covers General Douglas MacArthur's removal from command by President Harry Truman and Civil Military Relations.

Today I'm going to talk about the Korean War,

and we're going to talk a little bit about civil military relations.

Last time we met, we talked about the Cold War and the development of containment.

Korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony of Japan since 1910 during the Second World War that was fighting in Korea, the U.S. and the Soviet Union jointly occupied Korea, and they agreed to divide Korea. Now, northern Korea, that is what we call today, North Korea,

was very much communist influenced.

Southern Korea, which we now call South Korea,

was a very different situation.

With the assistance of the UN, they sponsored elections in South Korea,

and the South Koreans elected a democratic government.

North Korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms,

and so he sent insurgents into South Korea to try and overthrow that government,

and they failed to do so.

Then, in January of 1950, the U.S. Secretary of State Dean Atchison made a really

significant error.

In a speech talking about the areas of influence and positions that were vital to the United

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