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19th June 2008, 08:50
Who Started Korean War?
Nearly six decades have passed since the Korean war broke out; however, humankind is still not cognizant of the backgrounds of the warwhy and who broke itwhen the Cold War is over. The blame is laid upon the elements who are desperate to distort and conceal the truth.
Who Began the Korean War?
The United States had long fixed its eyes on Korea as a bridgehead for attaining supremacy over Asia and the rest of the world. From the moment it set its foot on south Korea in September 1945 it mapped out a war plan and pushed ahead with it.
Clamouring that Korea is the battle ground upon which its entire success in Asia depends and a testing-ground of a life-and-death struggle between democracy and communism, the United States carried out scrupulous war preparations, making the Korean war fait accompli.
It paid primary efforts into increasing the war capabilities of the south Korean puppet army with modern equipment in an attempt to use it as the shock force in the war.
The US Congress officially published that they provided south Korea with over 145 000 rifles, 2 000 machineguns and submachine guns, 2 000 guns, 4 900 trucks, 79 warships and others. The number of the armymen trained in an American way stood at over 100 000 up to 1949.
According to the final war operational plan mapped out by the US, the Korean war was to be unleashed in the summer of 1950, and the US aggression forces and the south Korean puppet army should be fully prepared for the combat. Also envisaged were thorough measures for stabilization of the rear, full-scale participation of the south Korean and the US armed forces in the war from the outset, and also involvement of Japan.
The US had already worked out the plan to conceal its armed invasion and pass the buck to the DPRK: To launch a massive mass-media campaign to spread false information about north Koreas southward invasion from the moment of the outbreak of the Korean war, followed by legalization of US armed intervention through the United Nations Security Council.
By the spring of 1950 it had finished its war preparations. The only task that remained was to ignite the war.
In mid-June 1950 US President Truman dispatched as his special envoy Dulles, the then adviser of the State Department, to south Korea, and Defence Secretary Johnson and Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Bradley to Tokyo to decide, together with MacArthur, Commander of US Armed Forces in the Far East, on the date of the war and the procedures.
Dulles travelled around the 38th parallel area, taking the south Korean brasshats in his wake. He inspected the state of the deployment of the south Korean puppet army and the preparedness of its arms and equipment for war. He also checked on the combat readiness of even the police troops. Then, he examined the northward march plan on the spot.
Later, he spoke to the south Korean National Assembly in the following vein: I came to south Korea by order of President Truman to personally examine your preparedness for northward march and carry it out without delay if fully ready. I am very satisfied with what I saw here Now that you are ready there is no reason to put off the northward expedition even a day. Once you start attacks, youre sure to win. You may trust the US for everything after the start of war.
On June 22, Dulles, together with MacArthur, Johnson and Bradley in Tokyo, finalized the war plan: the method, the action course and the date for the war. The plan was later approved at a joint meeting of the President and the heads of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, State and Defense departments, and ratified by President Truman.
Meanwhile, the US launched a campaign on an unprecedentedly large scale to lay the blame for war provocation at the door of the DPRK. Accordingly, Truman reportedly left for his hometown in Missouri with his wife and daughter on June 24, 1950; Secretary of State Acheson was weekending, and Roberts, former head of the AMAG, traveled to the US mainland. Behind this smokescreen, however, all the staff members of the MacArthur Command, including MacArthur himself and Armond, the chief of staff, were on standby.
At last the US Far East Command issued an order to the south Korean puppet army, through its chief of the general staff, to launch an armed invasion against the DPRK.
Han Su Han, former captain and chief of staff of the Seventeenth Regiment of the south Korean puppet army, testified that all the officers were confined to the barracks and ordered to keep themselves on a stand-by alert on June 24, 1950, though it was Saturday. Then they were given a secret order, he said, on the night of the 24th to launch military operations against north Korea by breaking through the 38th parallel on the following dawn, the 25th. Early in the morning of June 25, 1950, the US imperialists and the Syngman Rhee puppet clique started an all-out armed aggression against the DPRK without any declaration.
On July 7 that year, the US imperialists had the UNSC adopt a resolution on the dispatch of the UN Forces under the US command to Korea, an illegal resolution contrary to the principle of consensus and passed in the absence of the representatives of the Soviet Union, permanent member of the UNSC, and the DPRK, the direct party.
In this way the so-called UN Forces involving the troops of 15 satellite countries, one third of the US ground force, one fifth of its air force and all the troops of the south Korean puppet army were committed to the theatre of war in Korea.
Truth Can Never Be Concealed
The history of the Korean war records confessions, statements and testimonies made by US aggressors about the war.
At the hearings of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in May 1951, MacArthur, former Commander of the US Far East Forces and concurrently of the UN Forces during the Korean war, confessed with regard to the outbreak of the war to the following effect: The north Korean army was stationed far behind from the 38th parallel, and that not for attack but for defence.
In its report to the UN Secretary General on the result of its inspection of the areas around the 38th parallel, the military inspection group of the UN Commission on Korea confirmed that there was no secret information that pointed to the possible invasion from north Korea. After his inspection of process of implementation of the US plan for military bases in south Korea Lieutenant General Wedemeyer, deputy chief of staff of the US Army at the time, asserted that the Korean unification and independence must never be tolerated, as it would gravely threaten the overall interests of the United States and, therefore, the scope of US military occupation should be extended to the whole Korea.
Muccio, the US ambassador to south Korea, sent a report to his home government in early May 1950 that there was hardly any possibility for north Korea to advance southward in the foreseeable future. Willoughby, director of the Intelligence Department of the MacArthurs Headquarters, confessed that when a war was impending most of the Syngman Rhee troops had already virtually been deployed along the 38th parallel.
Many printed materials reveal who is the real provoker of the Korean war.
A south Korean book about 30-year-long stationing of the GIs in south Korea wrote that Dulles, who visited south Korea on June 17 and inspected the area along the 38th parallel, returned to the US without detecting anything unusual.
The Indian newspaper Crossroads, in its issue on December 22, 1950, disclosed that the plan of the United States was to militarily occupy the area north of the Korean 38th parallel with the direct participation of the Syngman Rhee troops aided by the ground and naval forces of the US.
The American book, entitled, The Korean War, An Unanswered Question, revealed that Dulles ambition was to help Syngman Rhee win the presidency of south Korea with the purpose of gaining a base on the Asian mainland not only for the conquest of north Korea but also China.
According to the Japanese version of the American book, The Hidden History of the Korean War, Korea had been an important strategic crossroad for centuries, thereby being infringed upon by China, Russia, Japan, and even the US army of late. It wrote that Korea was the most vital part for the Americans to form a blockade ring against the further spread of communism.
The US magazine Life wrote that never before in our history had we been so nearly prepared at the start of any war as we were at the start of this war.
The Minneapolis Times of America carried on July 23, 1950, an article, saying that the United States had taken part in the Korean war superficially under order of the UN, and that the order, however, was actually pressured out of the UN by the United States. It continued that the UN adopted a resolution calling on all the member states to offer necessary aid to south Korea, only 2~3 hours after President Truman issued an official statement that the US army was being involved in the Korean war.
Another American book dealing with the Korean war history wrote in the following vein: The UNs reckless involvement in the Korean war with no regard to the opinions of its member states is not so surprising in view of its historical course steered by the US representatives When the Korean war broke out, the US influence over the UN was at its height.
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History can neither be burnt nor erased. All the historical facts and data available now clearly testify to the absurdity of the American assertion that the Korean war was caused by the southward invasion of the DPRK.
The Korean people in the 3-year-long Korean war (June 25, 1950July 27, 1953) thrust upon them by the US, defended their country heroically and demonstrated the mettle of the Korean nation.
By whatever sophistry it may employ, the United States can neither conceal its true colours as the provoker of the Korean war nor shirk its responsibility for it.
Jin Pyol
Nearly six decades have passed since the Korean war broke out; however, humankind is still not cognizant of the backgrounds of the warwhy and who broke itwhen the Cold War is over. The blame is laid upon the elements who are desperate to distort and conceal the truth.
Who Began the Korean War?
The United States had long fixed its eyes on Korea as a bridgehead for attaining supremacy over Asia and the rest of the world. From the moment it set its foot on south Korea in September 1945 it mapped out a war plan and pushed ahead with it.
Clamouring that Korea is the battle ground upon which its entire success in Asia depends and a testing-ground of a life-and-death struggle between democracy and communism, the United States carried out scrupulous war preparations, making the Korean war fait accompli.
It paid primary efforts into increasing the war capabilities of the south Korean puppet army with modern equipment in an attempt to use it as the shock force in the war.
The US Congress officially published that they provided south Korea with over 145 000 rifles, 2 000 machineguns and submachine guns, 2 000 guns, 4 900 trucks, 79 warships and others. The number of the armymen trained in an American way stood at over 100 000 up to 1949.
According to the final war operational plan mapped out by the US, the Korean war was to be unleashed in the summer of 1950, and the US aggression forces and the south Korean puppet army should be fully prepared for the combat. Also envisaged were thorough measures for stabilization of the rear, full-scale participation of the south Korean and the US armed forces in the war from the outset, and also involvement of Japan.
The US had already worked out the plan to conceal its armed invasion and pass the buck to the DPRK: To launch a massive mass-media campaign to spread false information about north Koreas southward invasion from the moment of the outbreak of the Korean war, followed by legalization of US armed intervention through the United Nations Security Council.
By the spring of 1950 it had finished its war preparations. The only task that remained was to ignite the war.
In mid-June 1950 US President Truman dispatched as his special envoy Dulles, the then adviser of the State Department, to south Korea, and Defence Secretary Johnson and Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Bradley to Tokyo to decide, together with MacArthur, Commander of US Armed Forces in the Far East, on the date of the war and the procedures.
Dulles travelled around the 38th parallel area, taking the south Korean brasshats in his wake. He inspected the state of the deployment of the south Korean puppet army and the preparedness of its arms and equipment for war. He also checked on the combat readiness of even the police troops. Then, he examined the northward march plan on the spot.
Later, he spoke to the south Korean National Assembly in the following vein: I came to south Korea by order of President Truman to personally examine your preparedness for northward march and carry it out without delay if fully ready. I am very satisfied with what I saw here Now that you are ready there is no reason to put off the northward expedition even a day. Once you start attacks, youre sure to win. You may trust the US for everything after the start of war.
On June 22, Dulles, together with MacArthur, Johnson and Bradley in Tokyo, finalized the war plan: the method, the action course and the date for the war. The plan was later approved at a joint meeting of the President and the heads of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, State and Defense departments, and ratified by President Truman.
Meanwhile, the US launched a campaign on an unprecedentedly large scale to lay the blame for war provocation at the door of the DPRK. Accordingly, Truman reportedly left for his hometown in Missouri with his wife and daughter on June 24, 1950; Secretary of State Acheson was weekending, and Roberts, former head of the AMAG, traveled to the US mainland. Behind this smokescreen, however, all the staff members of the MacArthur Command, including MacArthur himself and Armond, the chief of staff, were on standby.
At last the US Far East Command issued an order to the south Korean puppet army, through its chief of the general staff, to launch an armed invasion against the DPRK.
Han Su Han, former captain and chief of staff of the Seventeenth Regiment of the south Korean puppet army, testified that all the officers were confined to the barracks and ordered to keep themselves on a stand-by alert on June 24, 1950, though it was Saturday. Then they were given a secret order, he said, on the night of the 24th to launch military operations against north Korea by breaking through the 38th parallel on the following dawn, the 25th. Early in the morning of June 25, 1950, the US imperialists and the Syngman Rhee puppet clique started an all-out armed aggression against the DPRK without any declaration.
On July 7 that year, the US imperialists had the UNSC adopt a resolution on the dispatch of the UN Forces under the US command to Korea, an illegal resolution contrary to the principle of consensus and passed in the absence of the representatives of the Soviet Union, permanent member of the UNSC, and the DPRK, the direct party.
In this way the so-called UN Forces involving the troops of 15 satellite countries, one third of the US ground force, one fifth of its air force and all the troops of the south Korean puppet army were committed to the theatre of war in Korea.
Truth Can Never Be Concealed
The history of the Korean war records confessions, statements and testimonies made by US aggressors about the war.
At the hearings of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in May 1951, MacArthur, former Commander of the US Far East Forces and concurrently of the UN Forces during the Korean war, confessed with regard to the outbreak of the war to the following effect: The north Korean army was stationed far behind from the 38th parallel, and that not for attack but for defence.
In its report to the UN Secretary General on the result of its inspection of the areas around the 38th parallel, the military inspection group of the UN Commission on Korea confirmed that there was no secret information that pointed to the possible invasion from north Korea. After his inspection of process of implementation of the US plan for military bases in south Korea Lieutenant General Wedemeyer, deputy chief of staff of the US Army at the time, asserted that the Korean unification and independence must never be tolerated, as it would gravely threaten the overall interests of the United States and, therefore, the scope of US military occupation should be extended to the whole Korea.
Muccio, the US ambassador to south Korea, sent a report to his home government in early May 1950 that there was hardly any possibility for north Korea to advance southward in the foreseeable future. Willoughby, director of the Intelligence Department of the MacArthurs Headquarters, confessed that when a war was impending most of the Syngman Rhee troops had already virtually been deployed along the 38th parallel.
Many printed materials reveal who is the real provoker of the Korean war.
A south Korean book about 30-year-long stationing of the GIs in south Korea wrote that Dulles, who visited south Korea on June 17 and inspected the area along the 38th parallel, returned to the US without detecting anything unusual.
The Indian newspaper Crossroads, in its issue on December 22, 1950, disclosed that the plan of the United States was to militarily occupy the area north of the Korean 38th parallel with the direct participation of the Syngman Rhee troops aided by the ground and naval forces of the US.
The American book, entitled, The Korean War, An Unanswered Question, revealed that Dulles ambition was to help Syngman Rhee win the presidency of south Korea with the purpose of gaining a base on the Asian mainland not only for the conquest of north Korea but also China.
According to the Japanese version of the American book, The Hidden History of the Korean War, Korea had been an important strategic crossroad for centuries, thereby being infringed upon by China, Russia, Japan, and even the US army of late. It wrote that Korea was the most vital part for the Americans to form a blockade ring against the further spread of communism.
The US magazine Life wrote that never before in our history had we been so nearly prepared at the start of any war as we were at the start of this war.
The Minneapolis Times of America carried on July 23, 1950, an article, saying that the United States had taken part in the Korean war superficially under order of the UN, and that the order, however, was actually pressured out of the UN by the United States. It continued that the UN adopted a resolution calling on all the member states to offer necessary aid to south Korea, only 2~3 hours after President Truman issued an official statement that the US army was being involved in the Korean war.
Another American book dealing with the Korean war history wrote in the following vein: The UNs reckless involvement in the Korean war with no regard to the opinions of its member states is not so surprising in view of its historical course steered by the US representatives When the Korean war broke out, the US influence over the UN was at its height.
* * *
History can neither be burnt nor erased. All the historical facts and data available now clearly testify to the absurdity of the American assertion that the Korean war was caused by the southward invasion of the DPRK.
The Korean people in the 3-year-long Korean war (June 25, 1950July 27, 1953) thrust upon them by the US, defended their country heroically and demonstrated the mettle of the Korean nation.
By whatever sophistry it may employ, the United States can neither conceal its true colours as the provoker of the Korean war nor shirk its responsibility for it.
Jin Pyol