Dear comrades and friends ,
The title of this seminar “Cheers Of Victory Reverberating Down Many Decades “ is very apt and relevant because the cheers of victory on July 27th 1953 in Pyongyang still echo today not just in Pyongyang but around the entire world . Today, when US led imperialism is carrying out aggression all over the world and some countries are crumbling, it is important to recall the great victory of the Korean people against US imperialism in the 1950s.
Often the imperialists like to refer to the Korean War (more correctly called the Fatherland Liberation War ) as the “unknown war “ or “forgotten war “ . The reason for this can be found in the statement of right wing US military historian Bevin Alexander , himself an officer in the US imperialist aggression forces during the war , who wrote that the Fatherland Liberation War was the “first war we lost”. The infamous reactionary senator JR McCarthy said that ““we suffered a serious defeat in Korea “.
The Fatherland Liberation War or Korean War was the first time that a socialist country was involved a full scale war against US imperialism and world imperialism.The US imperialists not only threw their own armed forces into the war but those of the south Korean puppets , 15 of their satellite countries,including to my shame , the UK , and even the Japanese militarists who fought in Korea in secret wearing the uniforms of the south Korean puppet army . In some ways the Fatherland Liberation War was like a world war.The Fatherland Liberation War was an anti-imperialist struggle against the international forces of reaction headed by US imperialism , a class struggle , a war to defend socialism and a war for national liberation.
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.
Originally the ROK puppets had boasted that they would have “breakfast at Haeju ,lunch in Pyongyang and dinner in Sinuji “ . However the invading ROK puppet forces were routed and the ROK puppet army collapsed . Instead Seoul, the capital of the puppet ROK was liberated on the 28th of June .In the first stage of the war the Korean People's Army liberated 90 percent of the territory of south Korea and 92 per cent 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.
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. Later comrade KIM IL SUNG declared that “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”
Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN said that the Fatherland Liberation War “was a military miracle unprecedented in the war history of mankind and a great feat of historical significance never seen before in the nation's history spanning 5 000 years”.
The Fatherland Liberation War ended in victory due to the Juche orientated military tactics and Juche-orientated military thought of the great leader supreme commander generalissimo KIM IL SUNG and the sublime heroism of the KPA. The myth of US invincibility was smashed to smithereens in the Fatherland Liberation War. The victory in the Fatherland Liberation War inspired national liberation and revolutionary movements all over the world to struggle against the colonial system of the US-led imperialists bringing about an era of decline for US imperialism, an era of anti -imperialism . US imperialism's defeat in Korea preceded its defeat in Vietnam and elsewhere. The Korean people's victory in the Fatherland liberation war was a great contribution to the world revolutionary movement as it showed that US imperialism could be stopped in its tracks and beaten.
Dr Dermot Hudson
Secretary General ERCFKP
Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK
Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea
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