The
Korean war provoked entirely by the US imperialists and their south
Korean puppets was a horrendous genocidal war against the Korean
people . The aim of the US was not "freedom" and
"democracy" but conquest and enslavement. The aim of the US
was to seize the northern half of Korea in order to have a strategic
bridgehead , so that they could have their troops on the borders of
China and the Soviet Union . In fact General Douglas MacArthur wanted
to turn the Korean war into a war against China. It was part and
parcel of the "roll back " strategy of US imperialism and
the so called "Truman doctrine."
The fact that John Foster Dullles, US secretary of state , visited
south Korea on the 19th of June 1950 only a week before the war
started proves beyond all reasonable doubt the role of the US in
provoking the war. The Foster-Dulles visit involved tours of
front-line areas .
The
US imperialists, the ringleader of the world imperialism and
international reactionaries, provoked a war in Korea on the 25th of
June 1950 by instigating their south Korean puppets to attack the
young Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. The US imperialists were
hungry for profits and conquest. The US imperialists fought an unjust
aggressive war against the Korean people. The US imperialists
launched a war of conquest against the DPRK , a war to destroy the
Juche-based people's democratic system in the DPRK as well to destroy
socialism in Asia and the world.
The British role in the Fatherland Liberation War was truly shameful
.The UK was one of 15 satellite states of the US that sent troops to
fight against the Korean people . The other countries that form the
roll of dishonour and disgace are :Luxemburg, Netherlands, Belgium,
Greece France, Colombia, Turkey, New Zealand , Australia , South
Africa , Ethiopia , Thailand and the Phlippines(Japan participated in
the Korean War secretly). It is significant that the UK found itself
fighting not only on the same side as US imperialism but with
Apartheid South Africa, Colombia of the death squads, fascist Greece
, Haile Selaissie's Ethopia and other very reactionary regimes
against an independent , progressive ,democratic and anti-imperialist
government . Thus the Korean war was a totally reactionary one that
held back the liberation struggle of the Korean people and the
reunification of Korea.
Indeed the British role in Korea for the past 150 years has been a
most shameful one. It was Britain that secretly helped Japan to
invade Korea and colonise Korea.
The government of Clement Attlee , which is praised in some
quarters but was actually responsible for surrendening Britain's
independence by taking the UK into NATO and also purging communists
from the civil service ,was a willing accomplice in the aggression
against the Korean people. Attlee sent young men to fight in Korea
against the Korean People's Army commanded by the great leader
Marshal KIM IL SUNG. Basically British troops were turned into cannon
fodder and mercenaries for US imperialism. Attlee(Labour ) and
Churchill(Conservative) sold the lives of British young men for a
measly handful of US dollars. In fact in order to pay for the cost of
sending the troops to Korea was paid for by increasing prescription
charges.
Among the British forces sent to the Korean front was the Royal
Ulster Rifles which had Suppressed the Irish people and committed
many atrocities during the northern Ireland troubles. The British
Army held back the reunification of Korea in the 1950s and also held
back the reunification of Ireland.
As
Julian Tunstall who served in the 1st battalion of the Middlesex
Regiment of the British Army pointed out in his book "I fought
in Korea " many of the British conscripts did not want to fight
in Korea , as Tunstall said "Well if they want a war let them
have one:let 'em fight it out " we said "But we don't want
their war "
Tunstall
describes graphically the real nature of British imperialism and US
imperialism i
"
In the nine months I spent in Korea I felt most deeply about the
outright discrimination against Koreans,whether in the north or in
the south,by the white men of many Western and allegedly more
civilised nations.Secondly, I saw a process of destruction in which
there was no attempt to confine the war to what is usually demanded
by military necessity...Officers gave such orders as 'Shoot
everything in White ' and 'Take no prisoners ' . Since 'everything in
white includes virtually every Korean civilian ,it is not surprising
that the greatest number of causalities in the war were civilians..
I
will regret that I went to Korea to fight the people'.
Tunstall also details how those Koreans who helped the British
forces either as translators or workers received nothing in return.
The British troops basically fought against the liberation of south
Korea by the Korean People's Army and helped to prop up the
reactionary and fascistic puppet regime of Sygnham Rhee that had been
on the verge of collapse just before the Korean War. The British
troops fought to "rollback " socialism and national
liberation and to bolster the oppressive and exploitative rule of the
south Korean landlords and capitalists. This is a crime
The Korean people led by the great revolutionary leader and national
hero Marshal KIM IL SUNG, a true military strategic genius and
ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander fought a fierce anti-
imperialist, anti- US struggle against US imperialism and the allied
forces of international reaction. It was a fierce class struggle
against the enemies of the people. The Korean people fought a
national liberation war against the Yankee imperialist invaders, a
war of justice for independence and freedom and also a war to reunify
the sacred mottherland.
The US killed over 1,200,000 million civilians in the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea . During the war the US indiscriminately
bombed the DPRK as well as carrying out deliberate and premeditated
massacres of civilians.
The US imperialists committed horrendous and stomach-turning
atrocities in all parts of Korea.Our delegation , consisting of
myself , Shaun Pickford and David Munoz visited the Sinchon Ri
Museum which serves as a memorial to the 35,383 people murdered by
the US imperialists during their temporary occupation of the area.
Similar atrocities took place at Susan Ri and also at Rogun-ri in
south Korea. The US not only used napalm in Korea but also biological
weapons that are outlawed under international law. Recently the US
has shipped anthrax into south Korea with the express intent of
repeating the disaster of biological warfare.
The
most fitting tribute to those who died in the Korean War is to
campaign for the withdrawal of US troops from the south of Korea and
for the reunification of Korea.
June 25th to July 27th is designated as the
Month of Solidarity with the Korean people. This was initiated by the
Tricontential Peoples Solidarity Organisation in the 1960s . We join
with friendship and solidarity organisations throughout the world
and progressive people everywhere in calling for the total and
unconditional withdrawal of US troops from the south of Korea . The
US must end its anti DPRK policy .
The
US imperialists are building up their armed forces in south Korea
with new weapons as well as continuing to carry out military
exercises against the DPRK.They have indefinitely postponed the
handover of wartime operation control to south Korea and has created
a combined US-south Korean army division. The US and its south Korean
puppets are intensifying their anti-DPRK campaign under the spurious
pretext of "human rights". People's Korea fully needs and
deserves total solidarity against US imperialism.
Finally it is time for the Korean Armistice Agreement ,which is over
60 years old, to be replaced by a proper and permanent peace treaty.
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