The United Nations Security Council condemned the attack on the day of the invasion and passed Resolution 82, calling for the immediate cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of North Korean troops back to the 38th parallel (St. Croix, 2024).
On June 27, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 83, recommending that UN members provide military help for South Korea to defend itself and to repel the armed attack by North Korea in order to re-establish peace in the Korean peninsula (St. Croix, 2024). President Harry Truman agreed to send American land and naval forces as part of the UN force to help South Korea. Korea was not of major strategic importance to the United States, but the US was concerned about the spread of Communism in Asia.
Although the Soviet Union, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, could have vetoed Resolution 83, it was boycotting the proceedings to protest the occupation of the Republic of China (based in Taiwan) rather than the People’s Republic of China in China’s seat on the Security Council (Cumings, 2011, p. 13).
