India-China: Himalayan task ahead

Historians cite American secretary of state John Foster Dulles inadvertently leaving out South Korea from the US defence perimeter in a seminal speech he delivered post-Second World War as one of the reasons for the Korean War in June 1950. This non-inclusion motivated the North Korean leader Kim Il-sung — aided and abetted by Mao Zedong’s China — to send his armies across the 38th Parallel into South Korea to unify the Korean peninsula.

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