Korea’s V-Day

July 27 is a significant day in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. This day 61 years previously the United States, which had boasted of being “strongest” in the world, surrendered to the Korean people.

Day of Victory

Early in the morning of June 25, 1950, the United States started the Korean war by instigating the south Korean puppet army, in pursuit of its wild ambition of securing a bridgehead leading to its realization of world supremacy.

To this end, it hurled into the war a huge armed force two million strong, including its armed forces, troops of 15 vassal of, enemy army and even the remnants of the former Japanese army. It vouched that the destiny of Korea would be “finished within 72 hours” at the outset of the war.

However, the Korean war produced an event worthy of special mention in the war history of mankind. The US suffered tremendous losses in the war: over 1 567 120 soldiers, including some 405 490 US soldiers, were killed or captured, and over 12 220 aircraft, 3 250 tanks and armored vehicles, 13 350 vehicles, 560 warships and vessels of various types, 7 690 guns, 925 150 small arms and other war equipment were destroyed. The loss it suffered was nearly 2.3 times as much as that it had suffered in the four-year Pacific War during WWII. It had boasted of having won in more than 110 wars of aggression previously, but was defeated for the first time since its founding.

The DPRK, a small country in the East, wrought a miracle unprecedented in history of the world of repulsing the multinational force in disguise of the “United Nations Forces.”

The army and people of the DPRK defeated the enemy’s numerical and technical superiorities by means of their ideological, strategic and tactical ones. Such adroit strategies and tactics as immediate and decisive counteroffensive of the Korean People’s Army, strategic temporary retreat and the formation of the second front by the regular army, position and tunnel warfare, ambush, and movements of aircraftand tank-hunting and snipers’ teams smashed to smithereens the military and technological superiorities much vaunted by the West.

The United States had no other option but to sign the Korean Armistice Agreement, similar to their surrender documents, on July 27, 1953. The then US President Dwight Eisenhower spoke through the radio 59 minutes after the AA was signed that it was tragically bitter.

July 27 was marked as the day of great victory for the Korean people who shattered the myth of “mightiness” of the US and reliably defended freedom and independence of the country.

History of Victory

The United States, instead of drawing due lesson from the past Korean war, has aggravated the tension on the Korean peninsula through ceaseless military provocations.

Typical is the incident of the US armed spy ship Pueblo that occurred in January 1968.

The armed spy ship of the US navy, having intruded into the territorial waters of the DPRK, was captured by the Korean People’s Army navy. When this happened, the United States made such a racket as to immediately start a war, deploying a large armed force in and around the Korean peninsula. US politicians demanded the DPRK should apologize and return the Pueblo. If the latter would refuse to do so, they threatened, nuclear weapons would be used.

In the face of the US blackmails the DPRK gave a resolute answer that it would “retaliate for the ‘retaliation’ of the enemy and return an all-out war for an allout war” and became fully prepared for an all-out confrontation with the US. Overpowered, the US could not but sign a document on apologizing to the DPRK for the espionage and hostile acts the Pueblo had committed and assuring no more violation of the territorial waters of the DPRK by any warship in the future.

The then US President Johnson deplored that it was the first letter of apology in the history of the US. Afterwards the US constantly committed provocations, such as the incident of its large espionage plane EC-121 in April, 1969, Panmunjom Incident in August, 1976, the first nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula between 1993 and 1994 and the recurrent nuclear crisis in the new century, driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the verge of war. All the incidents, however, ended in its failure and in victory of the Korean people.

Recently the US has continuously conducted maneuvers of war provocation jointly with south Korea by enlisting huge armed forces and military hardware, including nuclear-powered submarines, such as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle war rehearsals.

To cope with the ever more undisguised anti-DPRK policies and nuclear war games by the US, the DPRK has taken resolute measures. One of them was the missile launches taken place in the DPRK. The Korean army and people hold it as their steadfast principle and firm will to answer the provocation with immediate counterattack and return a sacred war of national reunification for a war of aggression.

The DPRK knows no idle talk and is countering the nuclear threats by the hostile forces with nuclear weapons, and their missiles with the same ones. July 27, V-day of the Korean people, will shine forever along with the DPRK’s ever-victorious showdowns with the US.

NOTE: The article is submitted by the embassy of DPRK.