It was on this very day that the ROK(south Korean ) puppet regime acting under the orders of the US provoked the Fatherland Liberation War which is referred to by the mainstream media as the Korean War , although it was not a war between Koreans but between a small country , the DPRK , and the American empire. Indeed it was a war against Korea , against the Korean people .As Marshal KIM JONG UN said to a conference of war veterans in 2015 that the Fatherland Liberation War was “a confrontation between rifle and atomic bomb.”
One of the most persistent myths and biggest lies in the West about the Korean War is that People’s Korea started the war and is used to demonise the DPRK to this very day and justify US aggression against the DPRK..
In fact an old teacher of mine told me a story that you won’t find in the Western history books;. On June 26th 1950 he was taking a party of children from his school around the offices of the ‘Daily Herald ‘ ( a long defunct newspaper ) when they started the visit the ticker tape coming out said ‘ south Korea attacks north Korea’ ‘ but when they were finishing the visit this had been changed to ‘north Korea attacks south Korea’ . It just shows you even then how the media manufactures the news ! .
To the above anecdote the following can be added ;
Firstly,The famous American journalist John Gunther wrote in his book “Riddle of McArthur” that a US staff officer in Tokyo on the 25th of June was called to the phone and came back and whispered, “A big story has just broken. The South Koreans have attacked North Korea."’
Secondly,On the morning of the 25th of June 650 US women and children were evacuated by the Norwegian ship the Reinford at 3am in the morning. US accounts put the war as starting at 6am so how would the US know in advance to plan the evacuation of its nationals?
Thirdly,Choe Dok Sin ,former South Korean Army commander, south Korean foreign minister and South Korean ambassador to the UN stated he saw the secret order of Syngham Rhee(south Korean puppet dictator) to start the war .
Fourthly,On January 26th 1950 the US concluded the US-south Korea Mutual Defence Treaty. On the 14th of April 1950 a then secret directive of US National Security Council directive NSC 68 authorised the start of the Korean war.
All the above facts show that it was not the DPRK that provoked or started the Fatherland Liberation War but the south Korean puppets egged on by their Yankee overlords
I would also point out that John Foster Dulles , US envoy , was in south Korea 7 days before the war broke out . If the US did not provoke the war what was he doing there ?
. I would recommend people read the excellent ‘ The US imperialists Started the Korean War ‘ and ' DISTORTION OF US PROVOCATION OF KOREAN WAR’ .
The US imperialists, the ringleader of 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 People's 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 as to destroy socialism in Asia and the world.
President KIM IL SUNG summed up the Fatherland Liberation War as follows
“The Fatherland Liberation War waged by our people was a fierce ,anti-imperialist , anti-US struggle against the allied forces of world reaction headed by US imperialism and a bitter class struggle against the enemies of the people”
The Korean people in contrast to the US and its satellites fought a war on their own soil to defend their independence and the people’s democratic system. It was also a class struggle against the capitalists and landlords in south Korea and former capitalists and landlords within the DPRK who wanted to restore the capitalist system
The Fatherland Liberation War of the Korean people proved to be a fiery crucible of the great Juche idea and self-reliance.
The US threw into the war unprecedented numbers of troops and amounts of materials , including troops from 15 of their satellite countries including to our eternal shame those from Britain .Prescription charges for medicine were introduced by the government to pay for the cost of sending British troops which showed that the aggressive war against the Korean people was paralleled by reactionary policies at home.
The war was a struggle against US imperialism and the allied forces of world reaction which unfortunately included the British Labour government but significantly fascist , reactionary and feudal regimes such as Apartheid South Africa, Colombia of the death squads, fascist Greece and Haile Selaissie's Ethiopia .
Another myth was that it was a war for ‘freedom and democracy “A US air force general, Curtis Le May who commanded US forces in the Korean War said "We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea"
Le May went on to become an American politician and a US vice-presidential candidate for the far right racist "American Independent Party " in the 1960s. Le May supported segregation in the USA
It was surely 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! . In reality the US had waged a racist ,genocidal war against the Korean people.The US imperialists tried to exterminate the Korean people by carrying out the war that they long planned
The barbarity of the US imperialists during the war was beyond human description.At least 1.2 million people were killed by the US. 35,383 people were murdered by the US at Sinchon -ri and 1,050 people at Susan-ri (one third of the population of the area), just to give a few examples.Sinchon county was the American Auschwitz .
I myself have visited the Sinchon museum which has now been renamed the Sinchon Class Education Centre , some 5 times , 3 times to the old museum(which was spread over 2 sites ) and the new expanded and modernised museum twice in 2015 and 2017 . I have met survivors of the massacre by US troops and also participated in an international rally at Sinchon in 2013 . In 2017 I actually made a speech at Sinchon.
During the Fatherland Liberation War the US carpet bombed the DPRK .During the Korean War the U.S. imperialist aggressors reduced the cities and villages in the northern half of Korea to debris, in breach of war laws and regulations banning attack or bombardment on peaceful cities, villages, dwelling houses and buildings by any means. This war represented a history laying bare the brutality of the U.S. imperialist aggressors and their crimes.
Blustering that they would wipe 78 cities of north Korea off the surface of the earth, the U.S. imperialist aggressors massively bombed and shelled the whole territory of the northern half of Korea and even used internationally banned napalm bombs and bio-chemical bombs, thus turning its whole territory into wilderness of cinders and ashes.
The atrocities committed by the U.S. imperialists on the ground and in the sea and air resulted in severely destroying 50,941 buildings of industrial establishments, 28,632 school buildings at all levels, 4,534 public health buildings including hospitals and clinics, 579 scientific research institutions, 8,163 printing and cultural institutions and 2,077,226 dwelling houses. 7,491 churches, chapels, cathedrals and other buildings for religious services disappeared. This brought the total number of severely damaged buildings to 2,416,407.
Railways extending 4,879 km, roads extending 4,009 km and bridges totaling 1,109 km and 1,489 locomotives, 4,803 trucks and 6,281 fishing boats and ships were destroyed, and 1,715 reservoirs and relevant facilities were blown up or destroyed, causing tremendous human, material and environmental damage.
It should also be mentioned that the US used biological and chemical warfare against the Korean people . The use of germ weapons was confirmed at the time by the confessions of captured US pilots and by an international scientific fact finding delegation which included the famous British scientist Professor Joseph Needham . Although the US tried to deny the use of germ weapons dismissing it as propaganda later research by Japanese expert Professor Masataka Mori revealed the DPRK’s story to be true.
The war exposed the barbarity and decadence of US imperialism . As President KIM IL SUNG said "Engels once called the British army the most brutal army. During the Second World War, the German fascist army surpassed the barbarism of the British army. No human brain could ever imagine more diabolic and terrible cruelty than those done by the Hitler gangsters at that time. But in Korea, the Americans have far exceeded the Hitlerites!"
Today 76 years after the provocation of the war the US hostile policy towards the DPRK and over 30,000 US troops plus nuclear weapons remain in south Korea . We must campaign against them .
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