“I gained the unenviable
distinction of being the first United States Army Commander in
history to sign an Armistice without victory”
That is a confession made by
Clerk, commander-in-chief of the “UN forces”, who signed the
Korean Armistice on July 27, 1 953.
The U.S. put into the Korean
front a huge armed force, numbering two million together, including
one-third of its ground forces, one-fifth of its air force, and the
greater part of its Pacific Fleet, plus troops of 15 of its satellite
countries, south Korean puppet troops and even remaining troops of
the imperial Japanese army.
The U.S. squandered more than
73 million tons of war supplies 11 times greater than it had spent in
the pacific war.
The U.S., however, suffered an
unbelievably great loss in the Korean War.
During the war 1 567 128 men
including 405 498 U.S. troops were killed, or wounded, or taken
prisoners.
The Korean People’s Army
captured, or shot down, or damaged 12 224 enemy aircraft and captured
or crushed 3 064 tanks, 191 armoured cars and 13 350 automobiles,
captured, or sank or crushed 564 warships, captured or crushed 7 695
artillery pieces of different types and captured 925 152 small arms
of different kinds, 21 245 071 bullets of different kinds, 489 260
shells of different kinds, 224 123 hand grenades, 14 449 mines and 5
788 communication devices of different types
The loss suffered by the U.S.
in the Korean War was nearly 2.3 times greater than it had sustained
in the 4 years of the Pacific War.
The U.S. newspaper “U.S.
News and World Report” said:
The loss suffered by the U.S. in the Korean War is over two times
greater than all the losses it had sustained in its 5 major wars:
Independent War, War of 1812, Mexican War, Spanish-American War and
Philippine War.
The loss inflicted on the U.S.
in the Korean War was not a mere loss, but the first ignominious
defeat in U.S. history.
The U.S. had recorded only
“victories” in its 100-odd wars in the history of more than 200
years of aggression. For the U.S. the Korean Armistice is little
short of an instrument of surrender.
In spite of a miserable defeat
by the Korean army and people in the Korean War in the 1950s, the
U.S. and its south
Korean puppets held a Victorious War Ceremony in July, 2014,
ridiculed by all people.
Instead of feeling disgrace at
the repeated defeats unprecedented in the world history of wars even
in the new century, they held a ceremony, thereby revealing their
miserable looks to the full.
As long as we are led by the
great brilliant commander of Songun, the history of victorious wars
and its tradition will be long to the DPRK forever, whereas shameful
defeat will remain as an unchangeable painful inheritance to the
aggressors.
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