Re: On Korean War anniversary, North says U.S. started it and was beaten

["will" <will@netpath.net>]

Yep!
That's what I was talking about!

The History Channel said on Fire and Ice that the Eighth Army used Scorched
Earth tactics
(soviet technique) in their retreat.

What I was trying to say was that the North Koreans tend to use reports from
other country's news reports and then they exagerrate them to create
agitprop.
This agitprop only works well in the third world countries North Korea likes
to have picnics with.  I'm glad you discovered kcna (you'll see where
Ohmynews, Tongil News, and JHK tend to be partially coming from).
Another source is www.dprkorea.com - but if your internet
connection gets slower the North Koreans are just having a friendly peak.
How do you think their software explosion they brag about came about?

 I love the absolute hypocrisy of North Korea condemning Japan from
a Japanese server while criticising their US aid-givers of stealing money
from the South.

Heh heh, and what kind of a commie symphathizer brings up Japanese
ODA funds as having made enough reparations nationally through providing
capital to promote a highly competitive and successful free-market economy?
I'm preaching the virtues of capitalism as a way to avenge the comfort
women!

Have you noticed historically alleged American war crimes are usually
bombings?

We can say that Dresden and the Tokyo firebombings were directed at
civilians.

Does anyone notice that Americans are the first to acknowledge their war
crimes?
Everybody does, some countries just don't want to admit it!

Anyway, I'll go do some research and see if the history channel was wrong
about
the scorched-earth policy.  If it was right I'll see if Korean civilians
were evacuated
(I bet they were).

Another thing on Japan - around 1/10 of the population of Hiroshima at the
time of the a-bombing was made
up of - what non-japanese ethnic group?


----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: On Korean War anniversary, North says U.S. started it and was
beaten


> Will,
>
> You sound like the north Korean official web site.
> Here is an article from today's "news."  At least they
> managed to get the name of the name of the commander
> of the United Nations Command correct.
>
> U.S. unprecedentedly barbarous destruction condemned
>     Pyongyang, June 28 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist
> aggressors perpetrated unprecedentedly barbarous and
> indiscriminate destruction of areas of the northern
> half of Korea during the last Korean War (1950-1953).
> Clark, the then commander of the "UN Forces", ordered
> a "Scorched-Earth Operation," threatening to "wipe 78
> cities in the north off the map."
>     An average of 18 bombs were dropped per 1 km2 of
> the northern half of Korea during the war.
>     In Pyongyang alone, nearly 430,000 bombs were
> dropped over it. They were more than the number of its
> population at that time.
>     Some 600,000 tons of bombs were dropped by the
> U.S. over urban and rural areas of Korea or 3.7 times
> those dropped over the Japanese territory during the
> pacific war.
>     Its acts of destruction in Korea was
> indiscriminate.
>     U.S. war planes indiscriminately bombed at least
> 1,000 hospitals and clinics with clearly visible red
> cross.
>     Their air raids reduced to ashes more than 1,900
> churches, cathedrals and temples, and cultural and
> welfare establishments and historic relics in
> thousands of places. The U.S. barbarous bombing
> levelled to the ground over 8,700 factories and
> enterprises, more than 600,000 houses, over 5,000
> schools and over 260 theaters and cinemas.
>     Meanwhile, 370,000 hectares of paddy and non-paddy
> fields were destroyed and 90,000 hectares of
> cultivated land were lost and many irrigation
> facilities and dykes seriously damaged.
>
> You can read the rest of their "news" at:
>
> http://www.kcna.co.jp/contents/28.htm#5
>
> --- will <will@netpath.net> wrote:
> > The 8th Army used scorched earth tactics during the
> > big retreat (according
> > to
> > Fire and Ice on the history channel) while the DPRK
> > Army tended to tie
> > people's
> > wrists up with chicken wire and shoot them.  Mix
> > scorched Earth burning of
> > everything -
> > including churches American missionaires built -
> > with DPRK blaming the USA
> > for
> > "attorcities" they commited or angry ROK mobs
> > commited and BOOM!  You get
> > "thousands of civilian deaths and destruction of
> > christianity in North
> > Korea".
> > They aren't delusion, they just know people believe
> > what they want to.
>
>
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