Significance of Victorious Fatherland Liberation War in World History

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Seventy years have passed since the gunfire of war came to an end on this land and the fireworks were set off in celebration of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (June 25, 1950-July 27, 1953).

The great significance of the Korean people’s victory in the war, which duly occupies a position in the history of the Korean nation and the history of world wars, is still being told to posterity.

The historic significance of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War goes beyond the fact that the young DPRK, small in territory and population, defended its dignity and sovereignty against the US imperialists that had boasted of their “mightiness” with immense economic power and military muscle and their allied vassal forces.

The victory in the Fatherland Liberation War was a world-historic event in which the DPRK safeguarded peace and security for mankind by checking the US strategy for world supremacy to dominate the Asian continent and the rest of the world after the Second World War and preventing a new world war.

Entering the latter half of the 1940s, an invisible “iron curtain” hang between the socialist and capitalist states along with the collapse of Nazism, and this triggered off the Cold War, a showdown without gunshots between the two camps.

The US, which emerged as the chieftain of world imperialism after the Second World War, worked out an adventurous plan to form a sphere of encirclement in the socialist camp from East Asia and, with this as its advance base, dominate the whole world. In order to carry out this plan it unleashed the Korean war as a prelude to the third world war.

It placed Korea in the central position for realizing its policy and strategy to dominate the Far East and, furthermore, Asia and the rest of the world. It was due to the political factor that both Soviet and US troops, the main hostile parties of the Cold War, were stationed in the north and south of Korea and socialist and capitalist systems stood opposite to each other.

The US warmongers came to a conclusion that they had to occupy the whole of Korea in order to make inroads into Asia from the Far East, and only then could they take their first step towards the implementation of their strategy for world domination. This was their view on the strategic position of the Korean peninsula.

Such a criminal attempt of the US to realize its strategy for world domination with Korea as a foothold was clearly manifested in “ABC,” a war plan for aggression in the Far East which was worked out from 1948 to the early 1950. The plan divided the war into three stages: Stage One (Plan A) was to start the war with the invasion of the DPRK by the US forces and the south Korean puppet army; Stage Two (Plan B) was to expand the war to Manchuria by officially committing the rearmed Japanese army and Chiang Kai-shek army; and Stage Three (Plan C) was to occupy the whole of Siberia including Ural.

This clearly shows that the Korean war unleashed by the US in June 1950 was not merely confined to Korea and that it was a war of aggression targeting the Asian nations including the Far Eastern regions and a war of an international character which might be escalated into a new world war.

Proceeding from this, the US hurled troops of its 15 vassal states and even Japan into the Korean war by manipulating its voting machinery in the UN, and formed aggressive blocs to escalate the Korean war into the third world war at any moment. It also made last-ditch efforts to use atomic bombs in the whole period of the war.

But the aggressive war in Korea failed to achieve the result desired by the US.

The victory in the Fatherland Liberation War marked a world-historic milestone which transformed the global political landscape and forcefully promoted the trend of the times towards independence and socialism.

It brought about such eye-opening events in the political aspect in which socialism defeated imperialism and the overall might of the socialist camp was strengthened markedly for the first time after the Second World War.

Under the leadership of Kim Il Sung, the Korean people launched an indomitable struggle at the outposts of socialism against the US imperialist invaders, with the result that the peoples of socialist and people’s democratic countries could vigorously speed up the socialist revolution and construction in peaceful conditions and environment and directed due efforts to building up their defence capabilities.

Entering the latter half of the 1950s, more than one third of the world population, or over 950 million people, took the path of socialism, and the banner of socialism fluttered in the vast areas of one quarter of the Earth.

The victory in the Fatherland Liberation War also inspired the forces of socialism and the non-aligned movement to emerge as the independent political forces in the arena of history and develop into an influential international movement, with the result that the forces of independence against imperialism grew stronger drastically.

Encouraged by the victory of the Korean people in the great Fatherland Liberation War, several countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America began to show a tendency of independence against imperialism from the mid-1950s, and finally turned to neutrality or non-alignment. This being the situation, the non-aligned movement (NAM) began to form an independent political trend and, at last, embarked on its first advance with the 1st NAM Summit held in Belgrade, the capital of the former Yugoslavia, in September 1961 as a momentum.

In the mid-1960s the NAM developed into a powerful force with two thirds of the world population and 71% of the area of the Earth. This constituted a mega political event next to the emergence of the socialist forces in human history after the Second World War. And it meant the birth of another great anti-imperialist, independent forces in the present times and a crushing blow to the US-led imperialists.

The socialist forces and the anti-imperialist, independent forces have grown in strength, whereas the US-led imperialist, reactionary forces have seriously weakened and faced a serious crisis.

In the Korean war the US imperialists suffered heavy casualties and the myth of their “mightiness” was shattered to smithereens. Their position in the imperialist system weakened seriously and conflicts and contradictions within the capitalist world grew sharper.

The victory of the Korean people in the war awakened the oppressed peoples around the world from their “sleep” of US-worship and US-phobia and inspired them with the thoroughgoing sense of independence and the fighting spirit against imperialism and the US. It also instilled in the people fighting for independence and socialism the precious truth of struggle that the people of a small country were able to achieve victory in the showdown with any formidable enemies, only when they were firmly convinced of the validity of their cause and their strength and fight with a do-or-die determination, rallied closely behind their leader.

Greatly encouraged by the Korean people’s heroic struggle and historic victory, the peoples of colonial and dependent countries valiantly turned out in the struggle against imperialism and colonialism and for freedom, independence, peace, progress and democracy, dealing crushing blows to the imperialists and rapidly promoting the process of collapse of the imperialist colonial system.

Indeed, the shining victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War, which was recorded proudly in modern history of mankind, was a world-historic event, in that they safeguarded peace for mankind by checking the ambition of the US imperialists for world supremacy and preventing a new world war, transformed the global political landscape and forcefully propelled the trend of the times towards independence and socialism.

Han Kyong Rim, researcher at the Academy of Social Science