From Naenara.kp-Korean War Reveals True Colours of the US (1)

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It has been 76 years since the US unleashed a war against the DPRK. Despite the lapse of many decades, however, the former remains the object of the latter’s grudge and hatred.

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The Korean war was the first step to translating into reality the US’s sinister scheme to expand the scope of its domination to the whole of the Korean peninsula and to a large extent spark a third world war so as to seek global hegemony.

The US plotted to break peace in the DPRK, China, the Soviet Union and other countries in favour of its bid to put the world under its control.

A thorn in its side was the DPRK which was vigorously advancing towards democratic development in the vanguard of the newly independent countries.

According to the so-called “ABC plan” worked out by the US between 1948 and early 1950, the first stage of the plan is to invade the DPRK, the second stage is to expand the war to China’s Manchuria and the last stage is to advance up to the Soviet Union.

The then US President Truman published a statement that threatened the use of nuclear weapons in the Korean war and planned to announce a “state of emergency” across the country and step up preparations for a third world war. Eisenhower, who succeeded Truman in the closing period of the war, examined on three occasions an operational plan to drop 30 to 50 nuclear bombs on the DPRK and the northeastern part of China.

Such facts tell that the US started the Korean war in pursuit of its wild ambition to check the peaceful development of sovereign states and hold supremacy over the world after the Second World War and that it even attempted to use nukes without hesitation to that end.

Crazy about its ambition for global supremacy, the US went to war against the DPRK, a fledgling nation which had been founded less than two years ago, on June 25, 1950, bragging that it would occupy the latter in the shortest possible time.

The Fatherland Liberation War was a grim war which was fought to defend the destiny and future of the DPRK and its people. At the same time, it was the first all-out war fought at the start of the Cold War that followed the Second World War, between the forces aspiring to independence and those of domination, and between socialism and capitalism. Therefore, the confrontation was unprecedented in its ferocity and gravity.

The DPRK was no match for the enemy in any respect—population or territory, military hardware or economic strength.

During the war the US mobilized a huge armed force, numbering over two million troops in total, including one-third of its ground force, one-fifth of its air force, and most of its Pacific Fleet, plus troops of its satellite countries, spent at least US$ 20 billion in military expenditure and squandered more than 73 million tons of materiel, or 11 times as many as the amount consumed in the Pacific war.

The DPRK had to wage a hard-fought war against the allied imperialist forces for three years to come.

Ri Hak Nam