support Was £4,700m over three years. programmes.
The British Labour government followed the US lead fully.
instantaneous and unqualified, wrote Michael Foot MP. 'No word of dissent was raised in the Cabinet, and few in Parliament or outside'. The decisive speech in Parliament was made by Nye Bevan, which committed Britain to 'We shall carry it through; we shall fulfill our obligations to our friends and allies..' he proclaimed.
Almost 700 British troops were killed during the war, with over 2,500 going missing or wounded. The only opposition to the war came from the Communist Party, and from the tiny forces of the Trotskyists of the Fourth International. The fore-runners of the British Socialist Workers Party took a neutral position as the imperialist forces invaded the North. The SWP continues to defend the view that the Korean war was an inter-imperialist conflict.
It's hard to estimate just how much blood is on the hands of successive British governments, but they have faithfully supported the 'Seoul lobby' at the United Nations. An 'Honour Guard' of British troops is still deployed in South Korea, Britain is still op-, posed to a policy of re-unification, and, is heavily committed economically through both expanding trade and investment