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At a point in the war when the US was on the verge of defeat, General Douglas MacArthur “announced that he saw unique opportunities for the deployment of atomic weapons. This call was taken up by many in Congress.”  Truman rejected this idea and instead “authorized MacArthur to conduct the famous landings at Inchon in September 1950”, which “threw North Korean troops into disarray and MacArthur began pushing them back across the 38th Parallel”, the line the US had “arbitrarily” drawn to artificially divide Korea, where there was “overwhelming support for unification” among the country’s population as a whole.  The US then violated its own artificial border and pushed into the North.












He also expressed a desire for chemicals and gas.



Atwood continues:













Boggs references: Boggs, Carl. The Crimes of Empire. London; New York: Pluto; Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Print.


  1. K SHESHU BABU says:

    The animosity between North Korea and US is not new. Ever since South Korea came into existence, there were skirmishes to a certain extent. But, the degree of enmity increased since the new king took over and Trump assumed office. North Korea has developed a lot economically and militarily to challenge US or even China which is trying to remain neutral. US, with its base as South Korea, is openly threatening North Korea by huge military build up. The threat of war seems to be more real now than ever. It remains to be seen how many nations support North Korea against US advances

  2. Terrorism, US-style

  3. The racism of Korean War “history'”, as told by Amerikastani “historians” and their Brutish vassals, is far more explicit than for Vietnam. As late as the early 1960s, the Brutish “historian” David Rees, in Korea : The Limited War, had this to say about the failed Chinese offensive south of Seoul: “The conquest of the civilised world by millions of expendable Asians had turned out to be a futile dream.”

    Brutish “historian” Russell Spurr, in Enter The Dragon : China At War In Korea , which is by Western standards sympathetic to the Chinese (though still anti DPRK) also uncritically regurgitates the “North Korea attacked South Korea” myth. In fact he specifically claims that any South Korean commander who attacked the North would have had to be insane. That though in February 1949 the South Korean puppet regime had already asked for American help to invade the North, and the Americans had refused unless the North could be seen to fire the first shots. This is exactly like telling Syrian cannibals that Amerikastan would overthrow Assad if he “crossed a red line”, meaning telling them exactly what to do to simulate said red line crossing.

    All this is especially unforgivable since the actual facts weren’t unknown even while the Korean War was still going on ; the great American journalist IF Stone wrote The Hidden History Of The Korean War towards the end of the conflict.﻿

  4. Here is S. Brian Willson’s excellent treatise on the US and its history of sabotage and unfulfilled promises toward North Korea and peace on the Korean peninsula:

  5. Robert J. Barsocchini says:

    Additional notes to article:

    1) Regarding which side technically fired the first shot in the Korean War, “Bruce Cumings, head of the history department at the University of Chicago, gave us the definitive answer in his two-volume The Origins of the Korean War, and The Korean War: A History: the Korean war started during the American occupation of the South, and it was Rhee [the US-installed dictator], with help from his American sponsors, who initiated a series of attacks that well preceded the North Korean offensive of 1950. From 1945-1948, American forces aided Rhee in a killing spree that claimed tens of thousands of victims: the counterinsurgency campaign took a high toll in Kwangju, and on the island of Cheju-do – where as many as 60,000 people were murdered by Rhee’s US-backed forces.”

    Truman then used the North’s counter-attack “to justify sending American troops to Korea to keep Rhee in power”.

    2) Chomsky, whom International Business Times notes is “one of the world’s most eminent academics and political commentators”, and Herman, an award-winning media and political economy analyst and economist, find a chief reason for the US destruction of Korea (as well as Vietnam and other places) was the “demonstration effect”, or “threat of a good example”. They cite US government documents noting China’s economic growth would soon “outstrip” non-“communist” countries, and that the US thus needed to take action to ‘retard’ economic growth in “communist” states, which it did in Asia and globally. Chomsky and Herman cite a National Security Council assessment that says in South Korea there was “discouragement at the failure to make as much progress economically and politically as North Korea”. And a US intelligence estimate from 1959 noted that the US-installed dictatorship in South Vietnam would, like the US-installed dictatorship in South Korea, would “lag behind” the North in terms of “development”. Thus drastic action had to be taken where possible (in Korea and Vietnam, not China) to retard development and growth and prevent the “demonstration effect”.* The US even undertook action to try to retard development in East Berlin, though for obvious reasons this was restricted to petty clandestine activities intended to both hamper growth and disrupt daily life, such as spoiling milk intended for school-children and breaking equipment in factories.

    (The phrase “threat of a good example” comes from an Oxfam report on why the US was trying to destroy Nicaragua through terrorism in the 1980s. The US was convicted of aggression in the world’s highest court for this campaign, but, since there is no enforcement mechanism against super-powers, refused to pay the damages awarded to Nicaragua.)

    *Chomsky, Noam, and Edward S. Herman. “The Overall US Assault as the Primary Bloodbath.” The Political Economy of Human Rights. Boston: South End, 1979. 305, 423. Print.

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