The imperialists do not like to talk too much about the great Fatherland Liberation War in Korea or as they like to call it the Korean War ( which is of course a misnomer because it was not a war between Koreans but a war between Koreans and the US imperialists ) . It is often referred to as the forgotten war or unknown war by the mainstream media . The reason for this can be found in the statement of right wing US military historian Bevin Alexander , himself an officer in the US imperialist aggression forces during the war , who wrote that the Fatherland Liberation War was the “first war we lost”. The infamous reactionary senator JR McCarthy said that ““we suffered a serious defeat in Korea “.
The Fatherland Liberation War or Korean War was the first time that a socialist country was involved a full scale war against US imperialism and world imperialism.The US imperialists not only threw their own armed forces into the war but those of the south Korean puppets , 15 of their satellite countries and even the Japanese militarists who fought in Korea in secret wearing the uniforms of the south Korean puppet army . In some way the Fatherland Liberation War was like a world war.The Fatherland Liberation War was anti-imperialist struggle against the international forces of reaction headed by US imperialism , a class struggle , a war to defend socialism and a war for national liberation
The aim of my talk today is not to give a blow by blow account of the Fatherland Liberation War , there are plenty of books that do that and there is the excellent Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum in Pyongyang which I hope that one day you will all visit . Instead I intend to look at the Juche-based tactics that led to victory in the Fatherland Liberation War and the subsequent DPRK-US conflict after that war.
The Fatherland Liberation War was the central part of the DPRK-US Showdown which has spanned centuries .In fact it can be said the DPRK -US Showdown or Korea-US Showdown began in 1866 when the USS General Sherman infiltrated into Pyongyang ( only to be destroyed by Pyongyang citizens led by Kim Ung U , the grandfather of President KIM IL SUNG ) . The DPRK -US Showdown continued after the Fatherland Liberation War and continues today as the US hostile anti-DPRK policies continue and are being intensified under the sleepy Joe Biden administration . In his speech on April 15th 2012 ( which some of us witnessed in person )Marshal KIM JONG UN spoke of the different stages of the development of the DPRK’s armed forces saying that “In the long period from its founding to the present, it fought a guerrilla war, a regular war and a showdown without gunshot; in the course of this, it has acquired all-powerful, Juche-oriented combat methods and accumulated experiences in achieving only victory, and developed into powerful armed forces possessed of the means of both attack and defence of our own style that are fully capable of coping with modern warfare of any type.”
This sums the experience of the Korean People’s Army which is guided by the Juche idea.
In the Fatherland Liberation War The great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG always stressed that the outcome of war is not determined by weapons alone but the ideology of those holding the weapons.
During the Fatherland Liberation War totally new tactics based on the Juche Idea were applied. For example the Korean People’s Army developed tunnel warfare, a new concept. An article by overseas Korean writer Han Ho Suk wrote that “North Korea's expertise in digging tunnels for warfare was demonstrated during the Vietnam War. North Korea sent about 100 tunnel warfare experts to Vietnam to help dig the 250 km tunnels for the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in South Vietnam. The tunnels were instrumental in the Vietnamese victor”
The great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG had accumulated precious experience during the 15 year long armed struggle against the Japanese imperialists. He developed original Juche-oriented military tactics, the likes of which had never been seen before. Another tactic was to go over to immediate counter-offensive .When the south Korean puppets under the command of the US Military Advisory Group attacked the DPRK on the morning of the 25th of June 1950 , Marshal KIM IL SUNG called a cabinet meeting where he made a speech titled ‘ Let Us Wipe Out the Invaders by a Decisive Counter-Offensive “ and ordered the Korean People’s Army over to an immediate counter-offensive . Thus the KPA and KPSF went over to an immediate counter-offensive pushing the south Korean puppets back .This was something unprecedented in the history of warfare! . Generally when a state is attacked or invaded by another state it takes some time to even adopt a defensive posture to resist the aggression. However thanks to the original Juche-oriented revolutionary military thought and strategy the forces of the DPRK were able to launch a decisive counter-offensive after halting the south Korean puppets in their tracks and allowing them no breathing space.
On the third day of the war , 28 June, Seoul the south Korean puppet capital was liberated by the KPA .This was disastrous for the south Korean puppets who had originally boasted of "having breakfast in Haeju, lunch in Pyongyang and dinner in Sinuiju" . This had not happened, instead the victorious DPRK wiped out the south Korean puppet forces and liberated south Koreae. The US started to heavily bomb all of Korea and drew into the war forces from some satellite countries. This did not stop the advance of the Juche-oriented Korean People's Army commanded by the great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG. The KPA smashed the Yankees at Osan .Torpedo boats of the KPA Navy sank US cruisers and destroyers.
The great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG personally commanded the Taejon liberation battle. Here the KPA , on its own and without outside help , faced the US 24th Army Division . The US 24th Division had been victorious in the Battle of Mindanao in the Philippines in the 2nd World War and its commander General Dean had been a US commander in Europe in World War Two . The U.S. 24th division was totally destroyed in the Taejon battle on July 20, that was the 20th day after its arrival in south Korea. General Dean, the commander of the Division, was captured by a young soldier of the Korean People’s Army . He was the first division commander of U.S. imperialist aggression forces to be taken prisoner in the Korean War. This was a great feat of the heroic Korean People's Army to have captured a Yankee general.
In the first stage of the war the Korean People's Army liberated 90 percent of the territory of south Korea and 92 per cent of the population The DPRK carried out its own defascistation and de-Americanization programme in south Korea establishing a people’s democratic system . A truly remarkable accomplishment that was achieved by the self-reliant revolutionary armed forces of People's Korea under the command of the great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG.
The US threw into the war unprecedented numbers of troops and amounts of materials. In fact 73 million tons of war materials were used in the war .The war raged on until July 27th 1953 when the US kneeled down and signed the Armistice Agreement.
During the three-year long Fatherland Liberation War, the U.S. imperialists lost over 1,567,000 men, including more than 405,000 of their own armed forces, and an enormous amount of combat equipment and war supplies, including over 12,200 aircraft, more than 560 warships and ships, over 3,200 tanks and armoured vehicles of different types, more than 13,350 trucks and 7,690 artillery pieces of various types. The loss suffered by the US imperialists was nearly 2.3 times greater than what they had suffered in the four years of the Pacific War during World War II. Even official US statistics showed during each of the three years of the Korean War they lost double the number of troops lost in each year of the Vietnam war. Later comrade KIM IL SUNG declared that “In this great struggle our people fought determinedly as one in mind under the correct leadership of the party and government and thereby withstood the harsh trials of war honourably and won a historic victory inflicting an ignominious defeat on US imperialism and its running dogs”
Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN said that the Fatherland Liberation War “was a military miracle unprecedented in the war history of mankind and a great feat of historical significance never seen before in the nation's history spanning 5 000 years’
However , the DPRK-US showdown did not end there and indeed the US imperialists blocked the Korean Armistice Agreement , which had been concluded on the 27th of July 1953, from being turned into a peace treaty and ignored the clause that stipulated the withdrawal of US forces from south Korea .
After the defeat in the Fatherland Liberation War the US schemed to provoke a war against the DPRK on many occasions but each time suffered a humiliating defeat . In 1968 the Korean People’s Army navy captured the USS Pueblo , an armed spy ship of US imperialism . The US threatened the DPRK but President KIM IL SUNG stood firm and the US were compelled to sign a grovelling apology to the DPRK and the ‘Pueblo ‘ remains in Pyongyang , displayed as an exhibit in the Fatherland Liberation War Museum . The US also tasted defeat in the EC121 spy plane shootdown incident of 1969 and the Panmunjom incident of 1976. This was thanks to the Juche-based commanding art and tactics of President KIM IL SUNG and the DPRK’s totally Juche-based revolutionary anti-imperialist stand .
The US also failed in the first and second ‘nuclear crisis ‘ when the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL faced down the US imperialists and developed the DPRK into a nuclear power of Juche . Under the guidance of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN the DPRK national defence capabilities have developed greatly , especially with the test of the H bomb and the tests of Inter-contitental ballistic missiles in particular the Hwasongpho 17 ICBM earlier this year .
If the US imperialists are foolish enough to provoke a second Korean War , they will suffer an even greater defeat and Korea will be reunified under the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN .
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