KIM IL SUNG HONORED WITH ORDER COMMEMORATING 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORY IN FLW

    Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- A decree was promulgated by the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on July 10 on awarding Order Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (FLW) to the great Generalissimo Kim Il Sung.
    The decree said:
    Kim Il Sung was an invincible iron-willed commander and a legendary hero for all ages as he led the FLW to victory to defend the freedom and independence of the country.
    He aroused all the service personnel and people to the do-or-die decisive battle against U.S. imperialism through his historic radio speech during the war and put forth original strategies, tactics and war methods in every period and at every stage of the war to overpower the enemies' numerical and technical superiority by political and ideological, strategic and tactical superiority.
    He won victory after victory in the acute showdown with imperialism and the U.S. and turned the DPRK into an invincible socialist power independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in defence, holding aloft the banner of Juche and Songun for decades since the end of the war.
    The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK confers Order Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Victory in the FLW upon Kim Il Sung, in reflection of the unanimous will and desire of all the service personnel and people, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the war. -0-

Kim Jong Il Awarded Order Commemorating 60th Anniversary of Victory in FLW

    Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- A decree of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on awarding the great Generalissimo Kim Jong Il Order Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (FLW) was promulgated on July 10.
    The decree said:
    Kim Jong Il was the Songun commander of Mt. Paektu and peerless patriot who smashed the imperialist reactionaries' moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK with the might of Songun for more than half a century and made the history and tradition of winning a victory in the war shine century after century.
    He grasped the Juche-based military idea and war methods of President Kim Il Sung at the operational table of the Supreme Command in his teens. Accompanying the President during journeys for Songun leadership, he remarkably developed the Korean People's Army into the army of the leader and the Workers' Party of Korea and wisely led the struggle to implement the party's military line.
    He formulated the Songun politics as the main political mode under socialism, thus providing a powerful treasured sword for defending the country and waging the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle. He wrought astonishing miracles by bringing a lot of events to be specially recorded in the history of the Korean nation spanning 5 000 years.
    The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK confers Order Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Victory in FLW upon Kim Jong Il, reflecting the unanimous will and desire of all service personnel and people of the country on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the war. -0-

DPRK Jurists Society Disclose U.S. Wartime Crimes

    Pyongyang, July 19 (KCNA) -- The Jurists Society of the DPRK issued a memorandum disclosing crimes committed by the U.S. imperialists during the Korean war.
    The memorandum released Friday cited facts to prove that the U.S., chief culprit of aggression and war, moved to cover up its nature as the provoker of the war and draw its aggression troops and armies of its satellite countries into the war.
    The UN Security Council's "resolution" on the Korean war was illegal as it was not based on investigation into truth about the disputes, the memorandum said, and went on:
    The "resolution" was adopted in contravention of article 32 of the UN Charter which calls for having parties to the disputes present in discussing problems and paragraph 3 of article 27 of UN Charter which provides that a UNSC resolution shall be valid by approval votes of members of the council (there were seven at that time) including approval by all permanent members.
    The U.S. committed atrocities in breach of war legislation and custom.
    During the war the U.S. dropped 428 000 plus bombs over Pyongyang on 1 400 occasions, destroying industrial establishments, education, health and public service facilities and dwelling houses and killing peaceable citizens.
    100 bombers of the U.S. army that flew into the sky above Sinuiju on November 8, 1950 dropped bombs, leveling 8 900 houses, killing over 9 000 and wounding 3 155.
    On September 16, 1950 when the U.S. forces landed on Inchon, they killed more than 1 300 civilians and arrested or killed over 75 000 patriots in Seoul alone.
    Little over one year into the war, the U.S. massacred one million civilians in south Korea.
    In areas in the northern half of Korea which were put under its temporary control the U.S. buried alive, burned to death or buried at rivers and seas a broad segment of innocent people including officials of party and power organs and working people's organizations, workers, farmers, office workers, youth and students and even religionists regardless of their sex and age. The U.S. troops even used wood-cuter as a killing tool and skinned or dismembered them to death.
    The U.S. raised A-bomb scare to carry people to south Korea but on the way killed over 4 000 in the makeshift bridge over ther River Taedong and on the frozen River Taedong and more than 30 000 in Sariwon-Haeju road.
    When retreating from the northern areas which were under their temporary control from the end of 1950, the U.S. imperialist aggressors spread all kinds of infectious viruses including smallpox, making the areas plagued with infectious diseases. The number of cases who contracted infectious diseases rapidly increased to reach 3 500 in April 1951 10 percent out of whom ended up in death.
    From early January to March 1952, the U.S. dropped all kinds of germ bombs on 169 areas in the northern half of Korea including highlands, coastal areas and mountainous areas a total of 804 times.
    In May 1952, the U.S. flew hundreds of planes to sky over the DPRK every day and a quarter of them dropped germ bombs. The highest number of flights reached over 480 a day.
    The use of poisonous gas by the U.S. began with its indiscriminate bombing on Nampho on May 6, 1951.
    1 379 people died due to the poisonous gas in Nampho.
    There are other examples proving the atrocities committed by the U.S. imperialists in wanton violation of war legislation and custom during the Korean war. They were not accidental ones by individual American soldiers but hideous and huge crimes committed in an organized and planned way under the U.S. government policy. -0-

The Ends of the “Ever-Victorious” Generals of the US

In the Korean war (June 1950-July 1953) the US, which had been boasting of being the “strongest” in the world, suffered a defeat, the first of its kind in its history. During the war the “ever-victorious” generals of the US met ignominious ends.

General Dean Becomes a POW

During the Second World War General Dean, commanding a division, killed and captured 30 000 German troops in Germany and Austria. In the Philippines he repulsed Japanese forces and entered Manila.

Leading the US 24^th Division, famous as an “ever-victorious” division, he went to the Korean front ahead of others. To check the southward advance of the Korean People’s Army (armed forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and ensure the deployment of the main force of his division, he dispatched Smith-led task force to the Osan line as an advance party. When the task force was annihilated at the first encounter with the KPA forces, he lamented that it was a “shame for the United States of America,” and said that he would “earn confidence in Taejon by fighting a model battle.” However, the division was encircled and wiped out in Taejon by the adroit combat tactics of the KPA combined units. Without caring about the dignity of a general, Dean fled in the uniform of a private soldier before being captured by a rank-and-file soldier of the KPA.

During the Second World War he used to say that to become a POW was the most ignominious thing for a soldier, and in the Korean war, he found himself becoming a POW.

“Grave General” Smith

Smith entered the Korean war, leading the 1^st Marine Division, which had been called the “flower of the Marine Corps.” During the strategic and temporary retreat by the KPA, he advanced as far as Lake Jangjin in the northern part of the DPRK. The KPA forces encircled and attacked the division, killing its troops en masse. Smith had frozen earth dug by explosion and the corpses as well as his seriously injured soldiers buried there.

His division lost 12 000 troops in the area of the lake. On a vessel carrying the remaining soldiers, the division commander lamented that it had been unprecedented in the 175-year history of the US marines that a commander went his way, leaving so many corpses of his men behind.

It earned him the disgraceful title of “Grave General.”

General Walker Dies While Fleeing

Walker had earned fame during the Second World War while advancing to Austria after landing at Normandy.

In the early days of the Korean war he commanded the ground operations of the “UN forces” as the commander of the US 8^th Army. He ordered his men: UN soldiers, your hands must not shake even though those who are in front of you are children or the elderly; kill them; by doing so, you will save yourselves from catastrophe and perform your duty as UN soldiers.

On his order, the US soldiers massacred innocent Korean civilians in the areas they occupied temporarily.

Though he clamoured that he would push the frontline to the northern border area of the Korean peninsula before Christmas, the 190 000-strong main force of the 8^th Army crumbled. While fleeing with a heavy tank in front, he encountered the KPA’s Second Front units, which had buried land mines and encircled the US forces before attacking them. Eighty US officers, including Walker himself, were killed in the battle.

General MacArthur Is Ousted

Allied Commander in the Far East, Douglas MacArthur commarded the UN forces from the first day of the Korean war. He enlisted in the Korean front vast amounts of materiel of the US, including the latest weaponry, and elite US forces. Organizing the General Christmas Offensive and other operations and drawing on the experience he had gained during the decades of previous wars, he made desperate efforts to conclude the Korean war in a short period. However, he found himself helpless in front of the counteroffensives offered by the KPA.

Judging that if they continued the war by placing confidence in him, they could be defeated, the US authorities fired him from his post in April 1951, less than one year after they ignited the war. Thus General MacArthur, who had been called a hero of the war in the Pacific, was ousted.

General Ridgway Is Recalled

After MacArthur was ousted, Matthew Ridgway was appointed to the MacArthur’s post. In the US military circles he had been known as an officer possessed of a strong will and high commanding ability and as an ambitious man who would face death if it was for his career and fame.

He flew to the Korean front in field uniform with two grenades around his neck. He resorted to every means and method to change the tide of the war; he proposed truce negotiations to the DPRK, and at the back organized various military operations, including the summer and autumn offensives. Each time he had to drink a bitter cup: during the period of the Autumn Offensive, the US lost 147 000 troops, 279 tanks and armoured vehicles, 961 planes and other combat equipment. He even had bio-chemical weapons used despite being called “General Pest” and “General Cholera,” but the result was the same.

He was recalled to his country one year after his appointment.

General Clark Sheds Tears

The US expected a great deal from Mark Clark, who succeeded to Ridgway, because he had received the surrender of the stubborn German forces in Italy and the Italian forces during the Second World War.

Soon after his appointment as commander of the UN forces, he declared that he would “wipe out” the 78 cities in north Korea from the map of the world, and unfolded the Operation Strangulation, aimed at destroying all, burning down all and killing all through carpet bombing. He organized the New Offensive as the last resort, but his dream of demonstrating the strength of the UN forces and win an “honourable truce” was shattered to smithereens. He could not but sign the Korean Armistice Agreement, a document which was as good as an instrument of surrender.

His mother, who received him at an airport, recalled as follows: The dignified mettle and pride were nowhere to be seen, and two streams of tears were trickling down his face.