Actually, the North Koreans were the good guys. They were like Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam - nationalists who wanted nothing more than a unified country. It was the US that ruined everything by creating a proxy war with Russia using the Koreans as cannon fodder (sound familiar?).
North Korea had always been the cultural, intellectual, industrial and commercial powerhouse of the Korean peninsula. The South was just rice paddies and rugged mountains ranges.
Which was why the US decided to drop 635,000 tons of bombs on the North - more than they had dropped in the entire Pacific theatre in WWII.
The South was ruled by a US puppet, a corrupt gangster and a criminal tyrant named Rhee Syngman (again, the parallels with Ukraine are obvious).
The North, OTOH, was ruled by a universally acclaimed war hero, Kim Il-Sung, who had led the fight against the Japanese occupation in WWII.
Korea is an apt analogy - the USA used the Koreans as cannon fodder to fight a proxy war to "weaken Russia". The people who paid were the Koreans, who were subjected to unspeakable violence, death, destruction, the eradication of their industrial and agricultural base and other privations - all so that the US could inflict a blow on Russia much like the Ukrainians today.
In fact, I predict that we may very well see the Dnieper River become the Ukrainian version of the 38th Parallel.
So no, the US did not back the good guys in the Korean War. The US murdered millions with an unprecedented aerial campaign that was so destructive and murderous it caused an American general to literally vomit when he saw the level of carnage.
I recommend this podcast series if you are really interested. I am, because my father fought in the Korean War. You may not be so much.
Russia is not fighting a genocide. If that were the intention. Russia would have stormed in with 1 million men last year and done their own version of the US "shock and awe" campaign in Iraq. Compare what Putin did in Ukraine with what Bush did in Iraq.
Three days after the initial US attack started, there was no electricity in Iraq. None. There was no sewage treatment, no water treatment facilities working. The entire country had been wrecked. Putin did not do this.
