No Statute of Limitations for War Crimes Committed by U.S. During the Korean War (2)

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/15349

 2022.7.6.

During the Korean War, the U.S. wantonly violated the international law such as the “Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949” and committed war crime of indiscriminately massacring innocent people by using most brutal methods in human history.

When the U.S. imperialists temporarily occupied some areas of the northern half of the Republic, they brutally killed innocent people from all walks of life including officials of Party, power organs and working people’s organizations, workers, farmers, officers, youth and even men of religion, regardless of their gender or age, using the most cold-blooded methods beyond human imagination. The methods include burying alive, burning to death, drowning in rivers and seas, cutting in pieces to death with a straw cutter, skinning to death, dismembering to death, etc.

Lots of innocent inhabitants were mercilessly killed by all sorts of cruel methods. Over 15, 000 inhabitants were killed in Pyongyang, over 35, 000 in Sinchon, 19, 072 in Anak, over 13, 000 in Unryul, over 6, 000 in Haeju, 5, 998 in Pyoksong, 5, 545 in Songhwa, 5, 131 in Unchon, over 5, 000 in Anju, 3, 429 in Taetan, 2, 450 in Yonan, over 1, 400 in Jaeryong, 1, 199 in Jangyon, over 5, 290 in Pyongsan, 1, 385 in Tosan, 1, 293 in Pongsan, over 1, 000 in Songrim, 1, 342 in Kaechon, over 1, 200 in Sunchon, over 1, 400 in Pakchon and over 1, 560 in Cholwon.

Besides, the U.S. imperialists slaughtered more than 4, 000 people at the temporary Taedong bridge (the present Taedonggang bridge) and on the ice of the River Taedong and over 30, 000 people on Sariwon-Haeju road while forcibly taking them to the south threatening them with atomic bombs.

Likewise, the massacre committed by the U.S. against peaceful residents during the Korean War surpassed the most barbarous and brutal atrocities committed by Hitler’s fascists during the World War II, which all went beyond the imagination of human.

In regard to the atrocities committed by the U.S. in the northern half of the Republic in 1951, an investigation team of the Women’s International Democratic Federation condemned that “the massacres and tortures the U.S. troops committed in the areas they temporarily occupied are even more vicious than those committed by Hitler Nazis in Europe”. A French newspaper at that time also exposed the crimes committed by the U.S. in Korea, saying that “the most outrageous crime of the 20th century was committed by the U.S. in Korea.”

Moreover, in less than one-year period since the outbreak of war, the U.S. imperialists slaughtered more than 1 million innocent civilians in south Korea.

For instance, when the U.S. imperialists landed in Inchon on September 16, 1950, they shot to death over 1, 300 inhabitants during one day alone. In Seoul, they arrested, imprisoned and killed more than 75, 000 citizens. And when they took to flight for the second time, they dealt with all the suspected summarily.

At that time, as many as 72, 390 peaceful inhabitants were tortured and massacred.

Immeasurable are the anti-humanity crimes committed by the U.S. against Korean nation during the Korean war and in the past.

The U.S.-the chief criminal who should sit in the dock of war crimes, human rights crimes- professes itself to be “human rights judge”, mentioning about the “human rights” of the others. This is really an intolerable insult to the justice and conscience.

There is no statute of limitations for the unprecedented anti-humanity crimes committed by the U.S. during the Korean War. We will surely make the U.S., our sworn enemy, pay for the blood shed by Korean people.