The aim of this short presentation is to demolish myths around about how the Korean War as it is known in the West or the Fatherland Liberation War as it is called in the DPRK began . I actually think the term Korean War is a misnomer as it implies it was a war between Koreans when in fact it was a war between the young Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States plus its lackeys and acolytes .
The mainstream media and history books will falsely accuse the DPRK of starting the war and even that it ‘invaded south Korea ‘ . No one stops to think whether you can actually invade your own country .
As we know the war broke on the 25th of June 1950 , some 71 years ago . However it can be said that it really started much earlier , from about 1947 when south Korea began making raids into the northern half of Korea . One could argue that the war began on the 8th of September 1945 when US troops landed in south Korea or even in 1866 when the US sent its pirate ship the General Sherman up the River Taedong in Pyongyang to loot and pillage.
The US, which had occupied south Korea in 1945 and created a puppet regime in south Korea, was dead against the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in September 1948 . In those days the US imperialists simply did not believe in the so-called containment of communism but in 'Rollback' .John Foster Dulles, US secretary of state was a well-known architect of this policy. Dulles had made a lot of money through dealings with the German Nazi party in the 1930s ..Dulles wrote a book called “War or Peace “ arguing for “liberating “ the socialist countries . He wrote that “We should make it clear ............ in Eastern Europe and Asia , that we do not accept the status quo ........ and eventual liberation is an essential and enduring part of our foreign policy” . In other words the aim of the US was to crush socialism by means of force whether direct military force or other kinds of force.
Internally the US banned the Communist Party and unleashed a wave of anti-communist hysteria known as McCarthyism in which even non-communist liberals were persecuted.
In south Korea the US established a puppet army under the control of a US military advisory group . The US armed and primed south Korea for a war against the DPRK . According to an official document released by the U.S. Congress, they handed over more than 145,000 rifles, some 2,000 machine guns and submachine guns, over 2,000 pieces of various calibres, 4,900 odd vehicles, 79 warships and others to the south Korean puppet army in 1949 alone. It is noticeable that the south Korean puppet navy was greatly expanded.
. The U.S. imperialists deployed most of the south Korean puppet army on the front along the 38th parallel and perpetrated armed provocations against the DPRK. In1949 the south Korean puppet army intruded into areas of the DPRK such as Mt Songak, Mt Unpha and other areas causing a lot of damage and casualties. The DPRK was attacked a total of 2 ,617 times.
On January 26th 1950 the US concluded the US-south Korea Mutual Defence Treaty. On the 14th of April 1950 a then secret directive of US National Security Council directive NSC 68 authorised the start of the Korean war.
Dulles, the architect of the US rollback policy, actually visited south Korea in June 1950 just one week before the war started . It is impossible for this to have been a coincidence . Dulles even inspected the frontline along the 38th parallel and a picture shows him looking at a map .
Dulles said to the south Korean puppet army “No strong enemy whatever would stand against you. But I hope you will strive ever harder because the day is not so far off when you’ll have to display your great might for your own sake."
Addressing the south Korean puppet “national assembly “ he said "You are not alone. You will never be alone so long as you continue to play worthily your part in the great design for the freedom of human beings.”. This was a coded message to the south Korean puppets to start the war .
After visiting south Korea Dulles stopped off in Tokyo and met with General Bradley and General Douglas McArthur as well as US defence secretary Johnson . Again this meeting cannot have been coincidental. On the 22rd of June Dulles stated, somewhat cryptically and enigmatically, “The United States will soon take some positive action “ It was evident that the meeting was to finalise the provocation of the Korean War.
The DPRK’s population was only half that of south Korea , so it would be absurd for it to try and initiate a war against south Korea . Moreover on the day the war broke out it was pointed out by a British soldier in Korea , Julian Tunstall that ‘ the Rhee army had six fully equipped divisions sitting just below or quite close to the 38th parallel ... So far it can be judged the KPA had 2 below combat strength divisions on or near the 38th the parallel’.
On the 23rd of June, south Korean puppet forces began an artillery bombardment of the areas north of the 38th parallel.
On the early morning of the 25th June the south Korean forces under the command of the American Military Advisory Group started the attack on the DPRK . The 17th regiment of the south Korean puppet army pushed forward in Taetan and Pyoksong and the First Infantry attacked in the Kaesong area . They intruded 12 kilometres into DPRK territory. The DPRK demanded they stop at once but this was ignored so the DPRK went over to the counteroffensive. It should be noted that the DPRK only launched the counter-offensive after warning south Korea to halt its attack.
On the morning of the 25th of June 650 US women and children were evacuated by the Norwegian ship the Reinford at 3am in the morning. US accounts put the war as starting at 6am so how would the US know in advance to plan the evacuation of its nationals?.
The famous American journalist John Gunther wrote his book “Riddle of McArthur” that a US staff officer in Tokyo on the 25th of June was called to the phone and came back and whispered, “A big story has just broken. The South Koreans have attacked North Korea."’
Choe Dok Sin ,former South Korean Army commander, south Korean foreign minister and South Korean ambassador to the UN stated he saw the secret order of Syngham Rhee(south Korean puppet dictator) to start the war .
All the above facts show that it was not the DPRK that provoked or started the Fatherland Liberation War but the south Korean puppets egged on by their Yankee overlords.
For those who want more detailed information I recommend the book ‘The US imperialists Started the Korean War ‘ and also the book ‘ US Distortion of the Provocation of the Korean War.’
Thank you for listening.
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