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Korea
DPRK history society on significance of War Victory
2003-07-28
History: Nork Version...
The Korean people’s victory in the Fatherland Liberlation War was a great event that brought about a turn in the implementation of the cause of independence against imperialism, exploding the myth about the U.S. mperialists’ "mightiness". The DPRK history society stresses this in a memorandum contributed to Rodong Sinmun today.
Yes, that was quite the "liberlation" war. No mention of that minor Chinese contribution to the cause.
The Korean War was, in political aspect, a model of anti-imperialist national liberation struggles, a war in which socialism defeated imperialism for the first time after the Second World War and, in moral aspect, a fight between human being and "higher savage," a war that declared the ruin of the "Yankee civilization".
Funny, I don’t feel like a member of a ruined civilization. I’ll ponder that one with a steak on the grill and a couple of cold ones. Hope they’ll enjoy their barnyard grass and don’t have to cook up one of the kids for their big celebratory cookout.
In military and technical aspects, it was the war largest ever in history in scale except the past two world wars and the first war in the era of a-bombs, a war in which most advanced weaponry was used at that time.
"The war largest ever in history"? And too bad we didn’t use some of those a-bombs. At least we wouldn’t have to put up with this bullshit.
The myth about the U.S. imperialists’ "mightiness" meant, in essence, the "mightiness" of the U.S. military capability, that is its tremendous economic potential and the superiority of its aggression troops in numerical strength and military technique based on such potential, the memorandum says, and goes on:
Ummmmmmmmm...okay...
However, that myth was shattered to smithereens in Korea. In the three year-long Korean War, the U.S. imperialists hurled over two million troops and all types of modern military equipment and weapons. But, even their "ever-victorious division", B-29 called "superfortress", seventh fleet with missouri as its flag ship and hundreds of warships of the navy in the far east could not save the U.S. from its defeat.
Well we did drive all the way to the Yalu until your Chinese friends showed up.
In the Second World War the U.S. suffered a loss of 46,000 planes in the wide skies of the world in four years. However, in the Korean War it lost more than 12,000 planes in the small skies over the Korean Peninsula, one thousandths of that size, only in three years.
I could fact check this, but why bother.
The U.S. imperialists were so foolish as to calculate that if they erased the cities and rural villages of Korea from a "map", set fire to mountains and streams, plants and trees and killed at random men and women, old and young through a "mass killing operation" involving the use of even germ and chemical weapons, they could frighten the Korean people and demonstrate the U.S. "mightiness".
The "sea of fire" strategy? I thought they owned that?
But they could not bring the Korean people to their knees by any barbarous atrocities. That was why former U.S. defense secretary Marshall deplored that the myth was shattered, saying the U.S. was not so strong as others thought.
The U.S., the "superpower" that suffered not a single defeat in the 100 odd year-long history of war of aggression, sustained a disgraceful defeat for the first time before the young people’s army in Korea and the myth about the "mightiness" of the U.S. imperialists was shattered to smithereens. The memorandum refers to the worldwide significance of the victory in the Fatherland Liberlation War.
It goes on:
...and on, and on.
The victory in the war helped protect the security of the socialist countries and the world peace and further strengthen the socialist forces. The victory brought about a new surge in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle and the national liberation struggle, precipitated the collapse of the imperialist colonial system as a whole and thus occasioned an epochal turn in the cause of global independence. As the military and technological superiority in which the U.S. imperialists had believed as in "God" proved absurd and the corruption of the U.S. imperialist aggression troops was brought to light in the Korean War, hundreds of millions of oppressed people, of the world who were taken in by the idea of fearing and worshiping the U.S., were freed from the mental yoke and joined the anti-imperialist front. The world people came to view the U.S. as a "clay-moulded giant" and a "paper tiger", not an "invincible power".
Which has turned out to be a mistake every time it was relied upon...
They grasped the truth that a decisive factor of winning a victory in the revolutionary war lies in the united strength of the popular masses convinced of the validity of their cause, not in the advantages of the combat equipment and, accordingly, even a small country can surely defeat any formidable enemy and win a final victory if it fights against him in a do-or-die spirit, singleheartedly rallied around its leader, believing in its strength.
The "do or die spirit". And this was before Songun and Juche. They’d have really kicked our ass if that was around back then.
The example of the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle set by the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberlation War served as a banner of the national liberation struggle in colonies and a factor of opening an epochal turn in the struggle for global independence.
The "Liberlation" war. History man should get a new spell checker.
Posted by:tu3031

#1  "clay-moulded giant"
Uh oh, they've been reading the Kabbala and stumbled onto our secret.
Posted by: Steve   2003-7-28 3:24:16 PM  

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