At 5:00 am on June 25, 1950, U.S. troops alongside troops of the U.S.-installed regime of Syngman Rhee invaded north Korea across the 38th parallel. The U.S. had forcibly divided the Korean nation in 1946 and instigated civil war in 1950. The U.S. then launched its invasion of Korea underthe pretext of helping one country, the Republic of Korea (ROK), defend itself against the "aggression" of another, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), denying the reality that Korea was and is one nation. The U.S. then engineered a vote in the United Nations to carry on its invasion plans under auspices of the UN and with the participation of its allies.

 The U.S. imperialists' occupation of south Korea began in 1945, a result of Japan's surrender at the end of World War II, and entailed a systematic campaign to smash the Korean people's desire for the immediate reunification and independence of their country which had been annexed to Japan with the support of the U.S. from 1910 to 1945. Upon the arrival of the U.S. military in south Korea in 1945 to receive the Japanese surrender, the U.S. dissolved by force the peoples' committees there, ruthlessly suppressing the Communist Party, leftist forces and south Korean patriots. They rigged up the Syngman Rhee puppet regime in 1948, and created the south Korean puppet army. In 1949, the U.S. supplied the south Korean puppet army with 105,000 rifles, 2,000 machine guns, more than 50 million bullets, 5,000 military trucks, 79 warships and 20 fighter aircraft. The south Korean puppet army was expanded to 150,000 troops by 1950 which outnumbered the Korean People's Army of the north, which had about 80,000 to 90,000 troops. In January 1950 the U.S. concluded with its South Korean puppets the 'Mutual Defence and Aid Treaty.' These measures were in preparation for the military take over of all of Korea.       

 The U.S. imperialists and their allies committed untold crimes in the three years of the Korean War. The DPRK was literally razed to the ground. On Pyongyang alone, 428,748 bombs were dropped by the U.S. -- one per resident. The U.S. also used massive quantities of chemical and biological weapons against the Korean people and carried out numerous military massacres of civilians in its attempt to terrorize the entire Korean people into submission to the U.S. dictate. But despite the loss of over 4 million mostly civilian lives, the heroic struggle of the Korean people showed the world that the U.S. imperialists' military might is no match for a people united in the just cause of national and social liberation. The U.S. imperialists were handed an ignominious defeat and were forced to retreat south of the 38th parallel where they continued their offensive against the Korean people, an offensive which continues today. The refusal of the U.S. to date to sign a peace treaty with the DPRK to replace the Armistice Agreement the U.S. was forced to sign at the end of the Korean War on July 27, 1953 shows that the U.S. has not abandoned its aim of launching another war on the Korean peninsula for self-serving geopolitical aims.

Unknown to most Americans, the US ‘totally destroyed’ North Korea once before

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 The aim of the U.S. today is the same as it was then -- to take over the entire Korean peninsula as a launching pad for its takeover of Asia.The U.S. justification remains as bankrupt as ever.    

 All the attempts of the U.S. to realize its domination of the region -- its occupation of the Korean peninsula with over 30,000 troops as well as its military bases, the ongoing attempts to sabotage the Korean people movement for national reunification, and its engineering of various fascistic puppet regimes in the south, including the present regime of Lee Myung Bak and its continuous disinformation and propaganda that the "problem" in Korea is the "threat" from the DPRK -- have failed to silence the 70 million Koreans who are demanding with one voice the peaceful and independent reunification of their homeland, free from U.S. imperialist interference. The criminal role of the U.S. imperialists in Korea, from 1945 to the present, has been exposed for the whole world to see and the resolute struggle of the Korean people stands as an example for all the peoples of the world fighting against imperialist domination.