The US Imperialists Started the Korean War

 

 

Candidate Academician Ho Jong Ho,

Doctors Kang Sok Hui

And Pak Thae Ho

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign Languages Publishing House

Pyongyang, Korea

1993

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the Second Impression of This Book

 

More than 40 years have elapsed since the provocation of the Korean War by the US imperialists.

The war inflicted intolerable misfortune and suffering on the Korean peo­ple. Their peaceful labour was suspended and the building of a new Korea, which was progressing with dynamic force, was interrupted.

The historians of our country have published many books exposing the true nature of the US imperialists as the provokers of the war and giving detailed accounts of their preparations to start it.

The matter of who started the Korean War was revealed by progressive scholars and reporters in the United States during the war and afterwards in Japan and other countries the world over.

Nevertheless, the US imperialists were and are desperate to avoid respon­sibility for the outbreak of the war. As for the grounds for their assertion they refer to the fact that as soon as the war broke out the Korean People’s Army rushed south at a remarkable speed. In addition they cite some rigged up inci­dents, what they call secret talks and parleys. But the first ground is not a mat­ter relating to the outbreak of the war but one of strategic superiority. As for the second ground, it is mere wild talk, with no documentary evidence at all to support it.

In consideration of this, our editorial board has decided to reprint the book The US Imperialists Started the Korean War that was first published in 1977.

This reissue contains some new data.

 

April 1993

 

The Editorial Board

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

Foreword

 

1. US Imperialism’s Policy of World Domination after World War II, Its Occupation of South Korea and Enforcement of “Military Government”

        1) US Imperialism’s Policy of World Domination and Korea

             US Imperialism’s Policy of World Domination

             US Imperialism’s Sinister Design to Turn Korea into Its Outpost for World Domination

             The Accursed 38th Parallel

        2) Occupation of South Korea by the US Imperialists and Their Establishment of a Colonial Military Rule

               Occupation of South Korea by the US Imperialist Aggressor Army

               Colonial Enslavement and Military Base Policies of the “US Military Government”

        3) Concoction of the Puppet Government in South Korea

        4) Consolidation of the Revolutionary, Democratic Base in the Northern Half of the Country; Struggle of the Korean People for the Independent, Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland

 

2. Undisguised Preparation for an Aggressive “March North” War

               1) Economic Crisis in the United States

               2) Puppet Army Organized, Its Equipment Improved

                         “ROK Army” Organized

                         Seizure of Command of Puppet Army by US Imperialism, Mode- rni­zation of Equipment of “ROK Army”

                3) Frantic Outcry for a “Northward Expedition” - Prelude to War

           4) Program for the “Northward Expedition” Mapped Out

           5) “Small War” along the 38th Parallel

                  (1) Armed Intrusions into the Area of Pyoksong County, Hwanghae Province

                  (2) Armed Intrusions into Yangyang Area, Kangwon Province

                  (3) Armed Intrusions into the Area of Mt. Songak

                  (4) Armed Intrusions into the Area of Mt. Unpha

                  (5) Armed Intrusions into the Territory North of the 38th Parallel from the Sea

                  (6) Murder, Terrorism and Destruction by South Korean “Special Units” Aimed at “Stirring Up Public Sentiment”

           6) Reframed Plan for War Provocation

           7) Large-scale “Purge” Campaign for “Stabilization of the Rear

                  Fascistization of South Korean Society

                  Campaigns for “Purge in the Rear” and “Purge in the Army”

           8) War Preparations in the US Mainland and Japan

                  War Preparations in the Mainland of the United States

                  War Preparations in Japan

                  The Abortive Plot for the Formation of the “Pacific Alliance” and MacArthur’s “Eleven-Point War Instruction”

 

3. Provocation of the Korean War by US Imperialism

            Silence before the Storm

            Pressing Situation That Brooks No Further Duration

            Four-Bigwigs Talk in Tokyo and Dulles' Tour of South Korea

            The 38th Parallel on the Eve of June 25

            Start of War by US Imperialism, All-out Armed Intervention by US Ground, Naval and Air Forces

 

4. US Imperialism’s Thrice-cursed Atrocities against Korean People

      1) Atrocity of Mass Murder Committed by US Imperialism against the Korean People

      2) US Imperialism’s “Scorched-Earth” and “Strangulation” Operations

                “Scorched-Earth” Operations

                “Strangulation” perations

      3) US Imperialism’s Germ Warfare

 

5. US Imperialists’ Serious Military, Political and Moral Defeats in the Korean War

     1) US Imperialists’ Crushing Military Defeat in the Korean War

     2) The Politico-Moral Defeat of US Imperialism in the Korean War

 

Conclusion

 

 

 

 

Foreword

 

Many years have already elapsed since the provocation of the Korean War by the US imperialists.

Mankind keeps the memory of this war that caused inestimable losses in manpower and material values to the Korean people and reduced to ashes the brilliant national culture they had built up in a corner of the Eastern Hemi­sphere by their diligent efforts and extraordinary talents through an historical period of several thousand years.

The US imperialists set their huge propaganda machines in motion and strove to lay the blame for the war on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and no small number of the world public were, in fact, misled by their false propaganda.

But, this tampering with history was short-lived, and the truth could not be withheld indefinitely.

As the days went by, the true colours of the criminal were exposed all the more clearly, and the cause of the Korean War and the objective of its provok-ers, too, became apparent.

In less than one year after the outbreak of the war, progressive-minded foreigners had already found inconsistencies in the US government's propa­ganda and begun to suspect it. In spite of unfavourable conditions prevailing at that time, they strove to clear up the truth through an unbiased comparison and analysis of the data and laid bare the true colours of the aggressors by their incisive pens. Among them were well-known American and Japanese journal­ists and scholars. Today, as a considerable amount of data has been dug up and a deep study made, it has been brought into bolder relief, as an unshakable fact, that the Korean War was ignited by none other than the US imperialists.

Moreover, in substantiating the actual igniter of the war, scholars and journalists at home and abroad drew all their arguments from indisputable graphic materials such as official statements and secret documents of the US ruling circles and Syngman Rhee clique and well-grounded news reports of those days.

As is known, one of the most important outcomes of the Second World War was the aggravation of the general crisis of capitalism due to the emer­gence of many socialist countries in the world. US imperialism, the ringleader of world imperialism, schemed to deliver its allies from the general crisis of the capitalist world through the realization of its “world leadership”.

US imperialism’s scheme for world domination inevitably signified a dec­laration of war against peace and democracy, national independence and socialism, and this declaration was put into practice by the “Truman doctrine”. In line with the “Truman doctrine” US imperialism was to use force, at any time and in any place in the world, against those countries and nations that obstructed the path to the “world leadership of the United States”.

Added to this was another factor which compelled the US billionaires to tie the policy-makers of their government to the wheel of war. It was the eco­nomic crisis that threw the US into considerable panic from the end of 1948 to 1949. As Van Fleet confessed, in order to tide over the economic crisis US imperialism had to enjoy a “blessing” of wartime profits and in this it needed, among others, Korea. This was the politico-economic factor that contributed to impelling US imperialism to the provocation of a war in 1949-1950. All the unusual movements of US President Truman, Secretary of State Acheson, Sec­retary of Defence Johnson, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Bradley, MacArthur who assumed the leading role in the Korean War, and Syngman Rhee were nothing more than a puppet show staged under that necessity.

Why, then, did they select Korea as a war theatre, the first “testing ground” for the US policy of world domination? This question, too, can be cor­rectly solved only when its examination is based on the law-governed process of historical development. They chose Korea because, as they themselves said, at that time Korea was a field of a life-and-death battle between socialism and imperialism and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was exerting an ever-increasing influence on hundreds of millions of people in the world who were still under the yoke of imperialism. The reader will be provided with the details in this book.

In short, we have tried to expose the actual state of things in the acts of the war criminals through substantial documentary records of the enemy’s side, free from conjecture, surmise or fabrication, and, on this basis, condemned US imperialism as the igniter of the Korean War.

Today when more than twenty years have passed since the Korean War ended in shameful defeat on the part of its provokers, the US imperialist ruling circles are scheming as ever to unleash another war on the Korean peninsula by the same method in order to gratify their deep-rooted desire to swallow up the whole of Korea. In the past they put up a “communist menace” as the pretext of the “north-bound expedition” and today they clamour about a “threat to southward invasion” to justify the northward invasion. They scheme to realize the old dream of “unification by prevailing over communism” under the plea of a “threat to southward invasion.” Ford, Kissinger and Schlezinger as the wor­thy successors to Truman, Dulles and MacArthur are resorting to atomic black­mail in an attempt to scare someone. The present situation reminds one of the eve of the Korean War when US imperialism made frenzied attempts to find a pretext for declaring the victim guilty through all sorts of provocations.

In this sense, this book, The US Imperialists Started the Korean War, will play its part in disclosing the crimes committed by US imperialism and repudi­ating the vicious sophistry of its defenders.

 

April 1977

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1. US Imperialism’s Policy of World Domination after World War II, Its Occupation of South Korea and Enforcement of “Military Government”

 

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