• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    7 days ago

    North Korea stormed through the peninsula at the start of the war, before the UN forces were fully deployed. Once they were, the tides turned and North Korea was pushed back almost to their own extinction. It was only with Chinese support that things turned back to a stalemate.

    Basically, this meme doesn’t work because the only army North Korea was ever able to totally conquer was the shambles of an army that were the South Korean forces after WWII.

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      Well, the PLA did beat their ROKA opponents in the peninsula, but then the US jumped in, and then the Chinese jumped in, and things got quite messy.

      But the meme still has it wrong because virtually all their equipment was soviet, with the possible exception of the medals, so they’re not any different…

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        7 days ago

        Well, the PLA did beat their ROKA opponents in the peninsula, but then the US jumped in, and then the Chinese jumped in

        Right. Is that not what I said?