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Short answer: South Korea was invaded by North Korea, and then defended by the UN (including the USA).
South Vietnam was formed in defiance of the international agreement to hold national elections for the future of Vietnam, and then supported primarily by the USA in the continuation of a civil war.
Sometimes the USA is on the right side. Sometimes the USA is on the wrong side. That's how history - and the national interests of powerful states - goes.
Also, Usa is not western world, they're the largest third world dictatorship
At the time they were, and also, if we use the term third world as it was initially, its still first world, by inherent fact of what the term used to stand for.
Western world is not Usa. You mean Usa then
I was going to point out that "third world" just means "countries the USA feels entitled to invade or topple the governments of", but I suppose that would make the USA a third world country now, given Trump's re-election after his attempted coup.
Edgy
So provocative
you could really make a good meme about the Soviet Union boycotting UN security council meeting and the rest of the members just voted in favor of defending South Korea without them.