Some reminders on the Korean war by the US terrorists
The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless, even by the assessment of America’s own leaders. “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984. Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.” After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops.
Although the ferocity of the bombing was criticized as racist and unjustified elsewhere in the world, it was never a big story back home. U.S. press coverage of the air war focused, instead, on “MiG alley,” a narrow patch of North Korea near the Chinese border. There, in the world’s first jet-powered aerial war, American fighter pilots competed against each other to shoot down five or more Soviet-made fighters and become “aces.” War reporters rarely mentioned civilian casualties from U.S. carpet-bombing. It is perhaps the most forgotten part of a forgotten war.
-https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-war-crime-north-korea-wont-forget/2015/03/20/fb525694-ce80-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html
Koreans in the North for decades have said the US used germ and chemical warfare against them which was dismissed as "Communist propaganda".
A British scientist in 1952 wrote a report detailing the hundreds of uses of biological warfare used in the Korean war that the US then suppressed for 70 years.
This report was recently released confirming what DPRK has been saying for decades
The report concluded that the U.S. had used a number of biological weapons, including use of anthrax, plague, and cholera, disseminated by over a dozen of different devices or methods, including spraying, porcelain bombs, self-destroying paper containers with a paper parachute, and leaflet bombs, among others.
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-long-suppressed-korean-war-report-on-u-s-use-of-biological-weapons-released-at-last-20d83f5cee54
some books on the Korean War not written by bourgeois liberal historians backed by right wing think tanks
https://archive.org/details/Korea-38th
https://archive.org/details/usforcessouthkorea
Kim Jong Un praising the Chinese volunteer army. 197,000 Chinese volunteer soldiers gave their lives to stop US terrorism
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1204279.shtml
I think a serious problem a lot of newly made socialists have struggle with imagining is the viciousness and violence produced by Capitalist Encirclement
Like in the case of DPRK you have never had a more clear cut example of a flowering and budding Communist movement with optimism then have their country cut in half by the imperialist bastards and 20 percent of the population killed in the North. For example read Anna Louise Strongs report from DPRK in 1949 on how optimistic the Koreans were , how all the landlords and reactionaries fled south to find haven under Sygman Rhees (a Korean-American flown in to run the puppet) dictatorship and how they had to suppress Communism in the South through mass executions and mass violence which was only possible because South Korea was occupied by the US
Can you personally imagine a life where 1 in 5 people you know is murdered by imperialists and the effects this would have on your society?
Like there was a nice thread on here I saw earlier about "what would you do after the revolution?" and whilst the replies were heartwarming and what I could imagine when so many socialist revolutions have broken out that we can now talk of a world of Socialist Encirclement (ie. Socialist nations encircling the last few hold outs of bourgeois reaction).... But under current conditions my answer would be "imprison every CEO/Major shareholder/Reactionary newspaper CEOS and directors and the majority of the Army officer core and work 24/7 to to prepare the industries and Peoples Army for the inevitable Capitalist invasion and/or internal counter-revolution that is coming our way".
These bastards are so afraid of Socialism that even 70 years later they have to basically siege the DPRK medieval style with economic embargoes to ensure they remain poor as an example to the world and there is no alternative to the "Washington Consensus"
Even despite this and against all odds they've finally managed to build ICBMs which means the US terrorists will never, never again murder 20 percent of the Koreans in the north while dropping anthrax, the bubonic plague and a million other biological and chemical warfare bombs on them
would you mind helping me work your post's body text and this comment, plus maybe a link to Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang, into something that I can use as a DPRK pasta?
I could just squish it together but just thought I'd ask
Yeah can do
Do you have some effective copy pasta examples and we can study the rhythym
does this site have a wiki? maybe we could create a version of the CIA's world factbook but about all the siege warfare by the US on a bunch of different countries. wait, there I go getting huge ambitions, let's get one done first. but a wiki might be a good way to collaborate
De ja vu moment. Today ive been looking to set up a wiki
I found zim in the debian repos which is very cool but more for local/personal useage so was planning on installing media wiki (what wikipedia is run off) on a server
Could be cool
I think there are some marxist-leninist wikis in existence already though so could use them. I justdid a google for it and couldnt find it though
I got a liberal friend of mine to watch the docudrama Wormwood with me. I feel sneaky because he likes the CIA, and he doesn't yet know what it's about.
It uncovers the story of the CIA's bioweapons lab director during the Korean War, Frank Olsen. They told his family he died in a bizarre accident in 1953. Then, twenty years later, the CIA said that he died in an MKUltra experiment gone wrong. The documentary reveals that this explanation was actually a modified limited hangout to cover up the truth: that they murdered Frank because he had a guilty conscience and they were afraid of him divulging the secret of US war crimes in the Korean War, which the US government is still denying today.
so umm.. at 11:30, did she say people of all ethnicities commended the CPV as the cutest people?
Translation is off a bit. Something like "nicest" or "loveliest" is probably more accurate. "People of all ethnicities commended the CPV as lovely people" makes much more sense and I don't think cracking jokes is the kind of thing you do in that room of people.
Xi is actually famous for going into epic bits in the middle of his speeches. It's where he tries out his new material.
