DPRK History Society Brands U.S. as Provoker of Korean War

Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) -- The History Society of the DPRK Monday released a memorandum disclosing the true colors of the U.S. imperialists as provoker of the Korean war with the approach of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War. The U.S. is the chieftain of aggression as it sparked inter-Korean confrontation and fratricidal war in Korea, the memorandum said, and went on: After the Second World War it occupied south Korea, pursuant to its criminal policy for invading the whole of Korea and dominating the world. It divided the Korean nation into two parts, escalating confrontation between Koreans and imposing all sorts of misfortunes and sufferings upon them. Already more than a century ago the U.S. defined it as its state policy to invade Korea, gateway to the Asian Continent. In February 1845, the U.S. ruling quarters presented a "bill for forcing Korea to open" to its Congress and left no means untried to invade Korea. The U.S. embarked upon the road of invading Korea with the intrusion of its aggressor ship General Sherman in 1866 as an occasion, but it was repulsed by the struggle of people in Mangyongdae and soldiers and people of the Walled City of Pyongyang. Then followed ceaseless U.S. aggression such as the intrusion of the warships Shenandoah and China in 1868 and the large-scale invasion in 1871 in a bid to conquer the Korean nation. From August 10 to 15 of 1945, the U.S. imperialists cooked up the 38th parallel under the pretext of "the line for sharing responsibility" for receiving the surrender of the Japanese Army. Their forces occupied south Korea under the mask of "liberator" from September 8 to the end of October. On Sept. 7, 1945, the U.S. imperialists declared U.S. military administration across south Korea through Proclamation No. 1 of the MacArthur Command. It unreasonably brought the issue of Korea to the UN and cooked up a "decision" on holding separated elections in south Korea and set up a pro-U.S. regime opposed to communism through suppression and fraud and swindle. After the emergence of the puppet regime in south Korea the U.S. imperialists frantically stepped up preparations for invading the DPRK. They built a puppet army to be used as a shock brigade for carrying out the war of aggression and rapidly beefed up its strength. They sent a 500-strong U.S. military advisory group, the biggest in the world at that time, to south Korea for the purpose of establishing a commanding system, forming units of the south Korean puppet army, etc. in the same way as done at the U.S. forces and making it undergo military trainings under the command of the group. The real aim sought by the U.S. imperialists in preparing the war of aggression was fully revealed by their process of working out and rounding off the war scenario. Their scenario had three phases. Its phase A was to launch the Korean War, its phase B was to escalate the war into China and its phase C was to intrude into Siberia. The U.S. envisaged 1949 as the year to start the operation. In order to verify the feasibility of the war scenario the U.S. imperialists drove the south Korean puppet army keen on "northern expedition" to armed provocations. Consequently, such battles reminiscent of a real war continued in areas along the 38th parallel even on the eve of the Korean War which broke out on June 25. The U.S. hatched a crafty and base plot to evade the responsibility for the provocation of the war against the DPRK. In October 1949, it cooked up at the 4th session of the UN General Assembly "the 3rd UN Commission on Korea" whose mission was to cover up the truth behind the outbreak of the Korean war and make profound confusing of right and wrong under the pretexts of monitoring and reporting "the military dispute in Korea". In the meantime, it had already worked out "basic documents" and "resolutions" to be presented to the meeting of the UN Security Council and the sessions of the UN General Assembly after the outbreak of the war. Dulles inspected positions of the south Korean puppet army along areas south of the 38th parallel after flying into Seoul in June 1950 and finally examined the war scenario, looking at operation maps and a model board showing the operational theaters. In the wake of his trip to Seoul the then defense secretary and the then chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff visited the MacArthur Command in Tokyo. Their Tokyo visits were aimed to decide on the issue of hurling U.S. units in the Far East into the battlefields of the Korean war whose outbreak was an established fact and examine the readiness to go into an action on the spot. The U.S. imperialists provoked that criminal war of aggression by hurling south Korean puppet units at 4 a.m. on June 25, 1950. MacArthur, who played a main role in igniting the Korean war, said that the war was his plan, admitting the provocation of the war. The U.S. should not forget its disgraceful history in which it was compelled to sign a document of surrender before the Korean people though it mobilized huge armed forces and latest military hardware for the war, warned the memorandum.