Politics

The US imperialists, who started a war of aggression against the DPRK on June 25 1950, resorted to the "scorched-earth warfare" of destroying and burning down everything in the country through indiscriminate bombing and shelling in violation of international law and humanitarian principles.

During the three-year war, the US Air Force aircraft made more than 800 000 sorties and the US Marine Corps and Navy aircraft over 250 000 sorties to drop nearly 600 000 tons of bombs, 3.7 times as much as those dropped on the Japanese mainland during the Pacific War, of which 85 percent targeted peaceful objects. This is tantamount to dropping 18 bombs per square kilometre of the DPRK’s territory on average. The enemies made more than 1 400 rounds of bomb attacks on Pyongyang alone, dropping over 428 000 bombs, which outnumbered its population at that time.

The US imperialists committed the massacre of the Korean people in an organized and planned way in the war.

During the period of the Korean People’s Army’s strategic temporary retreat in the Fatherland Liberation War, the aggressors occupied Sinchon County of South Hwanghae Province. They kept 400 mothers and 100-odd children separately in two warehouses, saying that the mothers and children would be so happy if they were together. They poured petrol over the children crying for hunger, set fire and threw hand grenades into the warehouses through the windows, thus brutally killing the children and mothers. In similar ways, the aggressors killed more than 35 380 people in the county, corresponding to a quarter of its total population, in a little over 50 days.

Not content with shooting, beating or burning people to death, the US imperialists committed appalling atrocities beyond human imagination everywhere they temporarily occupied, using all kinds of killing methods such as quartering, pulling people along with their noses or ears pierced with wire, gouging their eyes out, cutting off women’s breasts, hammering nails on people’s foreheads, pressing their necks with rocks or square bars, skinning them and cutting off their lips and tongues.

They unhesitatingly conducted a large-scale germ and chemical warfare and even schemed to drop nuclear bombs on the DPRK.

More than 1.2 million civilians of the country were killed in the US massacres during the war.

A fact-finding commission from the Women’s International Democratic Federation, which investigated the atrocities of the US imperialists in Korea in May 1951, denounced the aggressors in a report. It said that each fact proved that it was a war of massive destruction destroying more grain than military objects and killing more women and old people than combatants, noting that the war was being fought against life itself.

A member of the commission said to the following effect: The concentration camps set up by the Hitlerites were infamous prisons where people were killed with poisonous gas, but the atrocities being committed by the US imperialists in Korea are several times more terrible than those by the Hitlerites.

The US imperialists must be punished for their barbarities as they resorted to every possible means and method to exterminate the Korean people and wipe out the DPRK from the earth.