Truth behind the Korean War

June 25 is the day when the Korean war (1950-1953) broke out.

The war still has a profound impact on the situation of the Korean peninsula and beyond. Then how did it break out?

In view of the geopolitical importance of the Korean peninsula as a military vantage point for advancing into the Asian continent, the US dispatched its armed forces to the ROK in the guise of “liberators,” following Japan’s defeat in 1945.

In 1948, at the US National Security Council, the then US president Truman issued a directive to further expand the ROK army and provide military aid to it.

That year, the US and the ROK concluded the “tentative military and security status-of-forces agreement during the period of transition,” which put the ROK army, police, major areas and facilities under the control of the US forces.

They deployed ROK troops in an attack formation in the area along the 38th parallel, with materiel and military hardware massed near the front.

In January 1950, under Truman’s instructions, the US State Department and the US Joint Chiefs of Staff held a joint meeting to map out and agree on a plan to unleash the Korean war and a strategic plan for special actions at the outbreak of war, both of which were ratified by the US National Security Council on April 2.

According to an American book on the Korean war, all preparations for an armed raid on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea were brought to completion in May 1950.

Another book Modern History of America says that “this is the first time in US history that it is fully poised for going to war.”

This proves that the US made the preparations for military invasion of the DPRK in a planned way.

The US determined the D-Day, methods and order of war before launching an armed invasion of the DPRK early on June 25, 1950.

Referring to the reason why they set June 25 as the D-Day, Roberts, the then head of the US Military Advisory Group, said: “We have chosen the 25th and this explains our prudence. It is Sunday. It’s the Sabbath for both the United States and the ROK, both Christian states. No one will believe we have started a war on Sunday. In short, it is to make people believe that we are not the first to open a war.”

A staff officer of the US Army Command in the Far East confessed that “the ROK army launched the war on the direct order of the general headquarters of the US forces in Japan.”

In May 1951, MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the US Army in the Far East, said that the DPRK army was deployed in areas far from the 38th parallel and that the formation was not attack-oriented but defence-oriented. US military intelligence officers said that the People’s Army of the DPRK could not volunteer to invade because it was inferior in numbers or equipment. Such facts tell that the Korean war was started by the US.

The US can never cover up the truth behind its provocation of the war, no matter what tricks it employs to turn black into white.