General
James Thurman, newly-appointed chief of U.S. forces
in
South Korea, visits the truce village of Panmunjom, June 28.
Korean Central News Agency, North
Korea
Recalling America's
'Miserable Defeat' in the Korean War
Does the
North Korean regime have its history right, when it claims that the United
States and its allies were defeated in the Korean War? On this 58th anniversary
of the signing of the Korean Armistice, this article
from the Kim Jong-il government's fanatically controlled Korean Central News
Agency pretends that South Korea isn't a smashing-success and North Korea
isn't starving.
A North Korean soldier looks back at the Military Armistice Commission meeting room at the U.N. Command Center in the truce village of Panmunjom, July 27.
Pyongyang: In the Korean War,
which took place from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953, the U.S. imperialists
suffered a disastrous defeat.
They lost more than 12,200
planes, 560 vessels, 3,200 tanks and armored vehicles, 13,300 trucks, 7,690
guns and lots of other combat equipment and material. Over 1,567,000 enemy
troops, including 405,000 U.S. soldiers, were arrested, wounded or killed.
They began the war in order
to invade the newly-founded Democratic
People's Republic of Korea. The U.S. mobilized a third of its army, a fifth
of its air force and most of its Pacific Fleet.
It also inveigled soldiers of fifteen of its allies, the puppet army of the south
and Japanese militarists into the war - over two million soldiers in all.
The invaders indiscriminately
burned and destroyed huge swaths of the DPRK, even using illegal germ and
chemical weapons to massacre the Korean people.
But in the end, the U.S. imperialists
surrendered to the Korean people, sustaining heavy losses more than twice as
bad as in the Pacific War.
Thanks to President Kim Il-sung's
outstanding military ideas, tactics, wisdom and commanding art, the Korean Army
and people defeated the United States, which was styling itself as the strongest
in the world.
The Fatherland Liberation War of
the Korean People against the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces demonstrated
that nobody could match the popular masses seeking justice and peace, closely
united around their party and leader.
