North Korean Version of the War

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

Here is an interesting take on the lessons learned
from and outcome of the war from the north Korean
point of view.  I found it on the Korean Central News
Agency of the DPRK web-site.  


Myth of U.S. imperialists' "mightiness" shattered
    Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- The myth of the U.S.
imperialists' "mightiness" was shattered to
smithereens in the past Korean War. The Korean War was
a confrontation beyond human imagination as it was a
war between the young DPRK and the U.S.-led
imperialist allied forces. 
    The U.S. mobilized over two million-strong armed
forces including one third of its land forces, one
fifth of its air force, most of its pacific fleet,
plus troops of 15 of its satellite countries, the
South Korean and Japanese armed forces and its modern
combat and technical equipment to seize the DPRK
through a "blitz warfare." 
    The world was impatiently following the situation
on the Korean peninsula. 
    The world people expressed apprehension as to
whether the DPRK, small in its territory, would be
able to hold out in confrontation with the U.S. which
knew no defeat. However, something beyond the
imagination of the international community happened on
the Korean front. 
    The U.S. imperialists sustained a shameful defeat
as they misjudged their rival. 
    This defeat was the first in the U.S. 200 odd
year-long history of aggression. 
    In this regard, the U.S. magazine U.S. News and
World Report said that the U.S. losses in the Korean
War were over two times those the Americans suffered
in the previous five big wars. 
    The loss of manpower and war equipment suffered by
the U.S. imperialists in the three year-long Korean
War was nearly 2.3 times bigger than that they
sustained in the four years of the Pacific War during
the second world war. 
    Their myth of "mightiness" was thus exploded to
smithereens. This was bitterer disgrace to the U.S.
nobody thought that the U.S., which had boasted of
being mighty, would be defeated in the war against
such a small country as the DPRK. But, it was a hard
reality. 
    Marshall, the then U.S. Defence Secretary,
confessed that the myth of the U.S. was shattered and
it was not so strong as others thought would be. 
    If the U.S. imperialists, oblivious of the lesson
taught by the Korean War and overconfident of their
strength, come in attack on the DPRK again, they will
not escape from fatal disasters. 




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