In the DPRK
they say July follows June meaning which means that although the US
imperialists started the Fatherland Liberation War (known as Korean war in the
West) on June 25 1950 it ended with the victory of the Korean people on July 27
1953. Korea is known as the forgotten war by the US , there are no victory
parades or celebrations in the US or other capitalist countries. The right wing
and extremely anti-communist US military
historian Bevin Alexander , who himself had been a US army officer during the
Korean War, referred to the Fatherland Liberation War as being ‘the first war
we lost’ .
The Fatherland Liberation War was a truly
herculean and titanic struggle which saw the Korean people defeat US
imperialism for the first time in world history. It was a David and Goliath
Struggle.
When the war broke out on the 25 June 1950 ,
the odds against young People's Korea surviving let alone defeating US
imperialism seemed very slim indeed because the US had a population more than 20 times the size of the DPRK's and
nearly 100 times the size of the DPRK in terms of landmass. Moreover the US had
waged over a 100 wars of aggression and had emerged as the victor in the Second
World War . As part of the allied forces
the US had seen off Imperial Japan , Nazi Germany and fascist
Italy. The US had emerged as the boss of
US imperialism . It had a huge military machine and a global empire of military
bases across the world .The US was and is the bulwark of modern colonialism,
international gendarme and strangler of independence and national liberation .On
top of this the DPRK not only to had to fight against the US but
also the forces of the south Korean puppets , armies from 15 satellite
countries of the US and the Japanese fighting secretly in Korea wearing the
uniforms of the south Korean puppet army .
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 US fought a
truly racist and genocidal war. The order of the US commanders was to shoot
everything in white and most Korean civilians wore white. It was no coincidence
that George Lincoln Rockwell the founder and leader of the American Nazi Party
served as a lieutenant commander in the US imperialist forces during the war.
How could a small country
like People's Korea fight against the US and its puppets and vassals? The
answer was in the powerful revolutionary leadership of Marshal KIM IL SUNG ,
the Juche idea and the Songun idea as
well as the heroic self-sacrificing spirit of the Korean people and the young
Korean People's Army. The Korean people fought in the spirit of self-reliance
and fortitude guided by the Juche .The great revolutionary leader Marshal KIM
IL SUNG stated“We must solve our problems no matter who is helping us and what help we
get......Victory must be won by our strength” The efforts of the Korean
people that were primary in defeating the US imperialist aggressors.
Some people like to draw attention to the
internationalist assistance given to the Korean and in particular point to
China and the USSR. Of course it is true that such assistance was given and not
just by big countries but by all socialist countries. Moreover in the
capitalist countries the working class
and revolutionary movement opposed the war by holding demonstrations and
strikes. In the UK the Communist Party
of Great Britain and “Daily Worker “ opposed the war , as did some Labour MPs
to their credit,for example the famous Welsh MP S O Davies. Even in the US there
were protests against the war. In the oppressed colonial countries the
revolutionary peoples intensified their anti-imperialist struggles. In
particular the revolutionary forces of Malaya and Thailand stepped up their
armed struggle. However the best internationalist aid and assistance has no
effect unless the revolutionary forces of a given unite and wage a powerful struggle.
History knows many examples of revolutions that were given unstinting
assistance but came to nothing because the internal revolutionary forces were
not strong enough and the quality of leadership was lacking.
The great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG always
stressed that the outcome of war is not determined by weapons alone but the
ideology of those holding the weapons.
During the
Fatherland Liberation War totally new tactics based on the Juche Idea were
applied. For example the Korean People’s Army developed tunnel warfare, a new
concept. An article by overseas Korean writer Han Ho Suk wrote that “North
Korea's expertise in digging tunnels for warfare was demonstrated during the
Vietnam War. North Korea sent about 100 tunnel warfare experts to Vietnam to
help dig the 250 km tunnels for the North Vietnamese and Viet Gong troops in
South Vietnam. The tunnels were instrumental in the Vietnamese victor”
Many volumes
have been written about the great victorious Fatherland Liberation War . Time
will not allow for a full account of it but here are some of the key parts of
it.
On the 25th June 1950 at dawn guns boomed and
jets of flame shot out . The south Korean puppets intruded several kilometres
deep into the territory of People' Korea. The south Korean puppet army, under
the direct command of the US Military Advisory Group , had launched an armed invasion all along the 38th
parallel on a preconceived war plan. The south Korean puppets started
their aggression against the DPRK over
the whole length of the 38th parallel, intruding one-two kilometres deep in
the directions of Haeju, Kumchon and Cholwon. The south Korean puppets bragged
their radio they had captured Haeju(which categorically disproves the account
of US, Western and south Korean historians the
DPRK attacked first) . The destiny of the DPRK was hanging in the
balance , what could it do against the onslaught of the south Korean puppets
who were backed by the biggest military power in history ? The great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG called meeting of the Cabinet of the DPRK
and demanded that the south Korean
puppets stop their aggression at once . The south Korean puppets refused to do
so . So the great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG ,declaring that the Yankees had
misjudged the Koreans, ordered the Korean People's Army and Korean Peoples
Security Forces to go over to an immediate counter-offensive.
Thus the KPA and KPSF went over to an
immediate counter-offensive pushing the
south Korean puppets back .This was something unprecedented in the history of
warfare! . Generally when a state is attacked or invaded by another state it
takes some time to even adopt a defensive posture to resist the aggression.
However thanks to the original Juche-orientated revolutionary military thought
and strategy the forces of the DPRK were able to launch a decisive
counter-offensive after halting the south Korean puppets in their tracks and
allowing them no breathing space.
The great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG had
accumulated precious experience during the 15 year long armed struggle against
the Japanese imperialists. He developed original Juche-orientated military tactics,
the like of which had never been seen before.
On the third day of the war , 28 June, Seoul
the south Korean puppet capital was liberated by the KPA .This was disastrous for the south Korean
puppets who had orgininally boasted of "having breakfast in Haeju, lunch
in Pyongyang and dinner in Sinuiju" . This had not happened, instead the
victorious DPRK wiped out the south Korean puppet forces and liberated south
Korea,. The hated colonial reactionary ruling machines were smashed and land
was distributed to the peasants free of charge. The US started to heavily bomb
all of Korea and drew into the war
forces from some satellite countries. This did not stop the advance of the
Juche-orientated Korean People's Army commanded by the great leader Marshal KIM
IL SUNG. The KPA smashed the Yankees at Osan .Torpedo boats of the KPA Navy
sunk US cruisers and destroyers.
The great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG
personally commanded the Taejon liberation battle.I. The U.S. 24th division was
totally destroyed in the Taejon battle on July 20, that was the 20th day after
its arrival in south Korea. A young
People's Army took prisoner Dean
himself. He was the first division commander of U.S. imperialist aggression
forces to be taken prisoner in the Korean War. This was a a great feat of the
heroic Korean People's Army to have captured a Yankee general.
In the first stage of the war the Korean
People's Army liberated 90 per cent of the territory of south Korea and 92 of
the population . A truly remarkable accomplishment that was achieved by the
self-reliant revolutionary armed forces of People's Korea under the command of
the great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG .
The US threw into the war unprecedented
numbers of troops and amounts of materials. In fact 73 million tons of war materials were used in the war .The war raged on until
July 27th 1953 when the US kneeled down and signed the Armistice Agreement.
During the
three-year long Fatherland Liberation War, the U.S. imperialists lost over
1,567,000 men, including more than 405,000 of their own armed forces, and an
enormous amount of combat equipment and war supplies, including over 12,200
aircraft, more than 560 warships and ships, over 3,200 tanks and armoured
vehicles of different types, more than 13,350 trucks and 7,690 artillery pieces
of various types. The loss suffered by the US imperialists was nearly 2.3 times
greater than what they had suffered in the four years of the Pacific War during
World War II. Even official US statistics showed during each of the three years
of the Korean War they lost double the number
of troops lost in each year of the Vietnam war.
General Mark W Clark, the US commander who
signed the Armistice Agreement wearily concluded that he was the first US
commander in history to sign an armistice agreement without a victory . Former
State of Secretary Marshall said that “the myth was blown away. We are not a
strong country as others thought. The infamous Senator J R McCarthy admitted
“we suffered a serious defeat in Korea “ . McCarthy’s remark prompts me to think whether Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were really
executed(on the 19 of June 1953 a month
before the US defeat) as scapegoats for the US defeat in the Fatherland
Liberation War .As the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG said “In
this great struggle our people fought determinedly as one in mind under the
correct leadership of the party and government and thereby withstood the harsh
trials of war honourably and won a historic victory inflicting an ignominious
defeat on US imperialism and its running dogs .
The US
imperialists also suffered irretrievable political and moral defeats. It was a
great victory for the Korean people and opened up a new era of anti-US,
anti-imperialist struggle. Indeed Korea was the war before Vietnam !.
The executive secretariat of the Organisation of Solidarity with the People’s of Asia,
Africa and Latin America said on the 19th
of June 1968 “ under the superb
leadership of the Marshal KIM IL SUNG the People’s Army and the people of Korea
who inherited the traditions of the glorious
anti-Japanese armed struggle fought heroically and defeated US
Imperialism om the defence of liberty of the fatherland and the gains of the
revolution, making a great contribution in the anti-imperialist
national-liberation struggle of the
peoples throughout the world and the struggle for peace in Asia and the world.
This historic victory of the Korean
people has shown that no force on earth can ever bring to their knees a people
who fight for the independence and liberty of their country “
The victory in the Fatherland Liberation War
was due to the outstanding an brilliant commanding art of the great leader
Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG , a military strategic genius and ever-victorious
iron-willed brilliant commander.
Glory to the Korean people and the KPA on the
occasion of the 64th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland
Liberation War against the US imperialists!
We are convinced that led by dear respected
Marshal KIM JONG UN, another ever victorious brilliant commander of Mt Paektu,
there will be a 2nd and a 3rd July27th and the Korean people will win final
victory ,reunifying the country !Glory to the ever-victorious Korean people!
US OUT OF
KOREA!
Dr Dermot Hudson
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