US Crimes in Korea 1950-53: One in Five Killed! (18+)

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

As soon as the Soviet soldiers left from somewhere, the "peace-loving" Americans immediately pushed in there. This experience was worth remembering when the Soviet Army was withdrawn from Europe. Maybe there would have been no Yugoslav tragedy then.

In the United States and other "enlightened" countries, they still assure that the DPRK started the war, attacking peaceful South Korea on the evening of June 25. It is not fashionable to recall the tragic walk of four Lisinman divisions across North Korea, which began with artillery preparation on June 23, 1950.

Aggression was being prepared back in 1948, when the United States, South Korean rulers and circles in the Japanese leadership entered into a conspiracy against the people of the DPRK. At that time, in accordance with the agreement with the United States, the USSR withdrew its troops from North Korea, leaving the Korean people free from Japanese occupation to build their own statehood. On the territory left by the Soviet Army, the Koreans created their own administration, which was headed by Kim Il Sung- the leader of the Korean partisans who made the main contribution to the liberation of the country from the Japanese. but the Americans not only did not withdraw their troops from South Korea, but also did not recognize the local people's authorities, creating their own military administration … They dispersed the partisan detachments of the Koreans who fought against Japan and, in fact, replaced the Japanese occupation with the American one. Formally, South Korea was ruled by Lee Seung Man.

Delighted with the departure of the Russians, the imperialists immediately wanted to crush the entire Korean peninsula. The experience of history is a stubborn thing. As soon as the Soviet soldiers left from somewhere, the "peace-loving" Americans immediately pushed in there. This experience was worth remembering when the Soviet Army was withdrawn from Europe. Maybe there would have been no Yugoslav tragedy then.

At first, the United States hoped to defeat the DPRK with the forces of the South Korean army, which was intensively trained by specialists from the Pentagon. Just before the outbreak of hostilities, June 18, 1950, J. DullesLee Seung Mani inspected the troops, was satisfied. Apparently, then the command “Fas!” Sounded from the White House, according to which Rhee Seung Man rushed to exterminate his northern compatriots.

The very next day, the Korean People's Army stood under the walls of Seoul, and Rhee Seung Man ignominiously left the country, fleeing the capital.

WHAT IS THE REASONsuch a quick defeat of the South Korean army? There are many reasons for this.

Firstly, its personnel were trained by specialists from the American troops. The Americans were well versed in naval warfare, in air battles, but at that time had very little experience in conducting large-scale land battles. This experience could not be compared with the Soviet military experience of 4 years of titanic land battle with the Germans. But it was Soviet specialists who helped create and train the DPRK army.

Secondly, the fighters of the North Korean army themselves had considerable combat experience, taking a massive part in the guerrilla war against Japan.

Thirdly, the morale of the soldiers and officers of the free North Korean state was many times greater than the morale of the southerners, who resigned themselves to American domination. The very flight of Rhee Seung-man, who abandoned his soldiers on the battlefield, speaks of the resilience of his entire army. Kim Il Sung did not abandon his soldiers and did not flee the country even when the Americans later occupied the entire territory of the DPRK. And personally, Kim Il Sung was an order of magnitude superior to his opponent. A born leader and fighter, accustomed to struggle and danger from an early age, he himself paved the way to the country's freedom, created a guerrilla army and defeated the Japanese, created a state that restored it from ruins. Lee Seung Man, who took the toy power from the hands of the Americans, could not compare with the Great Kim, was afraid of him and envied him.

Discouraged and offended by the defeat, under the false pretext of repelling the North Korean aggression, the United States began the war in Korea. One of the bloodiest, brutal and most terrible wars in history. For 3 years, the Americans wiped out the Korean people. It is calculated that The United States dropped an average of 5 tons of bombs and shells per capita per Korean killed and 120 kilograms of ammunition per hectare of terrain (in World War II, this figure did not exceed 1 ton per person and 30 kilograms per hectare). Napalm-infested villages and towns eclipsed Nazi crematoria. Never before on our planet have so many people been killed and with such cruelty as the Yankees did in Korea. In fact, the United States apparently sought to completely destroy the Korean nation as such.

In the Korean territories temporarily occupied by the Americans, mass shootings and executions were constantly carried out. On November 7, in honor of the World's First Socialist Revolution, US troops shot 500 local residents on Mount Sudou in Hwanghe Province and 600 residents in Pexon County. In the city of Sariwon, the Yankees drove 950 people into the cave of Mount Marasan and shot everyone with machine guns. In Pyongyang itself, 4,000 townspeople were thrown into concentration camps, half of whom were executed. The bodies of the executed were thrown into wells and reservoirs by US soldiers.

On October 18, the Americans drove 900 residents of Xincheon County into a bomb shelter, doused them with gasoline and burned them alive. Among those burned were 300 Korean women and 100 children. In the city of Yenan, more than 1,000 people, several dozen children, were buried alive in the ground by the US troops. At the Eunnul mine, more than 2,000 people were dumped into the mine and filled with ore. In the city of Ehju, American marines drove 180 local residents onto a small ship, dragged out to sea further from the coast and drowned them along with the boat.

The “defenders of universal human values” did not disdain medieval torture and executions. In Czheren County, the warriors of the "new world order" quartered a boy who was helping the partisans. In the village of Sanamli, a 17-year-old boy was hammered into the bridge of his nose with a ten-centimeter nail, there they also ripped open the belly of a pregnant Korean woman with a bayonet and cut 300 people with a straw chopper. In Senri, the Americans ripped open the belly of a pregnant woman, boasting that they were killing the Reds. In the Oncheon volost, the Yankees beat a stake in the genitals of an arrested Korean woman, another burned her genitals with a hot iron and killed.

Total over a few months of the American occupation, more than a million civilians were executed. Even Hitler could not organize genocide in the occupied territories on such a scale.

The occupation of the territory of North Korea by the UN forces

In October 1950, UN troops crossed the 38th parallel and invaded North Korea. On October 17, 1950, the commander of American forces in Korea, Harrison, issued an order in which the following words were:

“Destroy all the red bandits to free North Korea from the communist monsters. Hunt them and kill all members of the Communist Party, government officials and their families. Kill those who sympathize with them."

And in January 1951, in the order of an American general RidgewayI said:

“Shoot any civilian suspected of being a communist - without taking him prisoner. The Chinese and Koreans are only slightly outwardly different from the beasts."

Not surprisingly, with such orders, UN forces killed many civilians. According to official information from the North Korean side, during the 52 days of the occupation of Sinchon County, the UN forces destroyed about a quarter of its population. More than 35,380 people died there, including about 16,200 children, old people and women! The massacre of the population of Sinchon County was no exception. After the liberation of Pyongyang by Chinese and Korean troops, the bodies of about 2 thousand prisoners were found in the city prison, who were not evacuated, but simply shot! And in the vicinity of Pyongyang were discovered the burial places of about 15 thousand people killed during the occupation of the city by the Americans. In other cities and counties of North Korea, many civilians were also killed during the occupation.

Terror from the air

A lot can be written about the American bombing of North Korea, but I will not bore readers with numbers. The US Air Force carried out massive carpet bombing of cities and industrial enterprises, destroying bridges, railway junctions and irrigation facilities. Before the end of the war, as a way of putting pressure on the Korean side, American aircraft destroyed dams on the Kusongan, Toksagan and Pujongan rivers. As a result, huge areas of agricultural land were flooded, causing famine among the civilian population of North Korea.

Commander of the American Air Force in Korea Curtis Le Maystated that the US Air Force "killed as much as 20% of the Korean population as direct victims of the war, or hunger and cold." There is nothing to add to this!