China, USSR, N Korea planned Japan invasion in Korean War: files
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 07:12 EST
LONDON — U.S. Army intelligence officials were told that China, the Soviet Union and North Korea planned to invade Japan during the Korean War, according to documents unearthed at the National Archives in London by Kyodo News. A "confidential source" told officials the three countries were to attack Japan by air and submarine and the assault would also involve an invasion of Taiwan.
The informer said Joseph Stalin, Kim Il Sung and Mao Zedong all met in Moscow for around five days to formalize the plan on or around Dec 3, 1950. They also discussed strengthening their alliance and agreed to complete their occupation of South Korea by April 1951. Members of the G-2 intelligence section of the U.S. Far East Command (FEC) had doubts about the scheme but thought it could not be ruled out given the circumstances at the time. They did not think any of the countries named were capable of transporting the reported volumes of troops by sea to invade Japan.
© 2007 Kyodo News. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 07:12 EST
LONDON — U.S. Army intelligence officials were told that China, the Soviet Union and North Korea planned to invade Japan during the Korean War, according to documents unearthed at the National Archives in London by Kyodo News. A "confidential source" told officials the three countries were to attack Japan by air and submarine and the assault would also involve an invasion of Taiwan.
The informer said Joseph Stalin, Kim Il Sung and Mao Zedong all met in Moscow for around five days to formalize the plan on or around Dec 3, 1950. They also discussed strengthening their alliance and agreed to complete their occupation of South Korea by April 1951. Members of the G-2 intelligence section of the U.S. Far East Command (FEC) had doubts about the scheme but thought it could not be ruled out given the circumstances at the time. They did not think any of the countries named were capable of transporting the reported volumes of troops by sea to invade Japan.
© 2007 Kyodo News. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission.
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