That's a pretty good point. They were essentially both puppets of the large powers, and the war pretty much a proxy war.
But that makes the POWs change of attitude less brainwashy and more 'informed' in my opinion.
But that makes the POWs change of attitude less brainwashy and more 'informed' in my opinion.
Say what you will about the US, but I think the results of a Stalinist / Maoist mashup speaks for itself. It is and was pretty obvious who the agressor was in Korea -- the Soviet tanks rolled into North Korea weeks before the Japanese surrender specifically to grab Korean territory. The Northern attack on the south was very clearly a land grab.