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Anniversary of outbreak of Korean War
Dear friends,
We send our warm greetings of Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People.
As you know well, six decades have passed since the fiercest war after World War II
was fought in Korea from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953.
Then, how did the Korean War break out?
The American statesmen attached great importance to the Far East and especially to
Korea.
The report No. 4849, a highly classified document issued by Information and
Investigation Bureau of the US State Department on January 28, 1949, said in the
following vein: In view of the strategic position held by Korea in Northeast Asia,
establishment of control over Korea and her people is of great value in any other country
interested in the Far East. And it is quite beyond any doubt that Korea has a great weight
with the US from the political viewpoint.
The Korean peninsula was a strategic point of military importance for the US from
which it could deal blows to any part of the Far East, a “bridge leading to the continent”
for attaining its world supremacy and a “dagger” for cutting off a “chunk of meat” of
Asia. In other words, the US considered the establishment of control over the whole
Korea to be the key to realizing its domination over the whole world.
For this reason, the US bent all its efforts to provoking a war in a bid to put the whole
of Korea under its control.
MacArthur, the then Commander of Far East Forces, said:
“By occupying all of Korea we could… control the whole area between Vladivostok
and Singapore … Nothing would then be beyond the reach of ur power.”
The US revealed its ulterior intention from the outset of its occupation of south Korea.
It was hell-bent on military buildup, stepping up the construction of military roads,
airfields and naval ports in many different places of south Korea.
A Japanese publication in those days said that the US arranged 400,000-strong armed
forces, including the ground force and the police 150,000 strong, reserve troops 200,000
strong, air and naval forces 3000 and over 10,000 strong each in south Korea. It also
disclosed that in 1949 alone the US handed over to south Korea the military equipment
worth US$ 190 million to leave nothing desired in the preparations for the Korean war.
The operations plan for carrying out an all-out offensive against the DPRK was
perfected and, in accordance with it, a great number of attack positions were build and all
forces deployed in attacking formations in the areas along the 38th parallel which divided
Korea into the north and the south. The director of the Information Department at the
MacArthur’s Headquarters wrote in his book that when the war was impending most of
the Syngman Rhee’s troops had already virtually been deployed along the 38th parallel.
MacArthur in his statement after his release from office confessed that the US had
concentrated all its war supplies and weaponry in the areas along the 38th parallel on the
eve of the war to attack the DPRK.
At that time the south Koran side committed armed provocations as a preliminary and
trial war almost everyday. Entering the year 1950, the armed intrusion reached to an
extreme and its number totaled 1147 between January 1 and June 24.
Meanwhile, US aircraft carrier and large bombers made full preparations to be readily
committed to the Korean peninsula. And the American civilians in south Korea were
evacuated to Japan on the sly.
With scrupulous arrangements made, Dulles, special envoy of the US president,
looked round the areas along the 38th parallel to make a final inspection of the situation.
After that an order was issued to start the war and the Korean war broke out at 4 o’clock
in the morning on June 25, 1950.
The United States was prudent in its calculation to fix the date of war on June 25.
It was a hackneyed trick preferred by aggressors to adopt a tactic of “surprise attack on
Sunday morning.” The Russo-Japanese war, the Sino-Japanese war and the Pacific war
had all broken out on Sunday mornings through blitzkriegs.
The US added a new meaning to this stereotyped method.
Roberts, the then chief of the American Military Advisory Group in Korea, had
explained why June 25 had been chosen as the date of war as follows: “We have chosen
the 25th and this explains our prudence. It is the Sabbath for both the United States and
south Korea, Christian states. No one will believe we have started a war on Sunday. In
short, it is to make people believe that we are not the first to open a war.”
The above-said facts offer no room for argument that the US unleashed the war
against the DPRK 60 years ago. The US can by no means throw off its responsibility as
the provoker of the Korean war.
Recently the U.S. and the South Korean authorities cooked up the “Choenan” incident
and trying to break out another aggressive war in Korean Peninsula, shifting the
responsibility to DPRK.
The second war in Korean Peninsula means an all-out nuclear war which would be a
great threat to the world peace and stability.
On the occasion of “June 25th-July 27th, the month of struggle against the U.S. imperialists”,
we firmly believe that you and your organizations will strongly denounce the reckless new
war maneuvers of the U.S. and the South Korean authorities and will fully support the
just cause of the Korean peoples for independent and peaceful reunification of the
country.
With best regards,
Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People
Source: by email from Pyongyang, 26 June 2010