Clark’s Confession

 2023.7.28.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/17262

It is regretful that I have to sign the Armistice Agreement. But do I have a choice, when I am confronted by General Kim Il Sung? We cannot possibly defeat Korea, not even with 100 Napoleons.

This is what Mark Clark, the then commander of the U.S. forces in the Far East and concurrently the commander of the “UN Command”, confessed 70 years ago on July 27, while signing the Korean Armistice Agreement, which was no less than a surrender document of the U.S.

At that moment his hands were so trembling that it took him as long as ten minutes to gather himself. After signing the Agreement, he said: “I suffered a sense of frustration that was shared, I imagine, by my two predecessors, Generals Douglas MacArthur and Matthew Ridgway.” – a self-evident acknowledgement of defeat.

Clark described later in his book “From the Danube to the River Amnok” how he felt when he was signing the Korean Armistice Agreement: “It capped my career, but it was a cap without a feather in it. In carrying out the instructions of my government, I gained the unenviable distinction of being the first commander in the history of the United States Army to sign an armistice without winning a victory.”

Such a statement of his vividly presents the wretched sight of the U.S. ignominiously defeated in the Korean War in the 1950s. At the same time, it teaches a hard lesson that the U.S. cannot afford to forget – a lesson, as had already been admitted by Clark, that the U.S. had no other choice but to fall on their knees before the Korean people in the Korean War which was “a confrontation between a rifle and an atomic bomb”, as the Korean people held in high esteem great Comrade Kim Il Sung, the ever-victorious iron-willed commander and brilliant military strategist.

President Kim Il Sung set forth the Juche-oriented Songun idea as early as in his teens and defeated the Japanese imperialists in the bloody war against them by pursuing the line that the Japanese imperialism armed to the teeth should be smashed, by means of arms at all costs. He also envisaged with his clairvoyance the military scheme of the U.S. that occupied south Korea following the liberation of Korea. He directed primary efforts to the building of a regular armed force of Juche type, and brilliantly accomplished the cause of army building even prior to the foundation of our Republic. He thus provided the politico-military guarantee for national defense well in advance.

When the U.S., boasting of being “the world’s strongest power”, mounted an assault on our young Republic to obliterate it in its infancy – it was only two years since its foundation - President Kim Il Sung took the initiative in the war, gaining ascendancy over the enemy’s military and technical superiority with his outstanding military idea, Juche-based art of war and ingenious strategy and tactics. He also organized and mobilized the entire army and people to turn out as one in the struggle for the victory in the war by dint of politico-ideological superiority and the single-hearted unity. He thus wrote the glorious history of victory in the war.

The U.S. had better remind itself of the historic lessons of the Korean War and not dare to offend our Republic with its nonsensical rash acts.

Today, the DPRK holds in high esteem respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, another brilliant commander borne of heaven, as the supreme commander of the revolutionary armed forces. Under his guidance, our Republic has attained the status of a full-fledged nuclear power true to its name – an invincible deterrent against war.

Should the U.S. choose to offend our Republic, we will annihilate them by using all our military power that we have gathered so far.

The Korean War in the last century marked the beginning of the downfall of the U.S.; now the 21st century would see the irrevocable termination of the U.S.

The rulers of the U.S. are well advised to forget, on no account, the lessons of history.