U.S. Should Draw Lesson from Korean War

Pyongyang, July 17 (KCNA) -- The United States is now intensifying its military movement to drive the situation of the Korean peninsula to an extreme. Its strategic assets such as nuclear carrier task forces, nuclear-powered submarines and strategic bombers had already been deployed in south Korea and its vicinity. And the U.S. proper-based fighters recently flew to the Osan Air Force base in south Korea. The U.S. seems not to draw due lesson from the defeat it suffered in the 1950-1953 Korean War. During the war, it mobilized all the famous military divisions and generals and employed every cruel war methods, but suffered a bitter defeat. The U.S. "Smith commandos", an advance troop of the alleged "ever-victorious division", was annihilated at once by the powerful attack of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in Osan area. At that time, military experts and war correspondents described this as the "start of the U.S. troops' tragic defeat". The defence line around Kumgang, which the U.S. forces called a "no retreat line" and "the last defence line", was broken down easily like a wet mud wall. The U.S. 24th Division was encircled and destroyed in Taejon city and its commander was taken prisoner by a young soldier of the KPA. Walker, commander of the U.S. 8th Army Corps, was killed in an ambush of a KPA unit. MacArthur, Ridgway and Clark, commanders of the U.S. forces in the Far East and concurrently commanders of the "UN forces", gained disgrace of "defeated generals" in the war. In the long run, the U.S. imperialists could not but sign a surrender document on July 27, 1953 after suffering a bitter defeat in the war against the young DPRK. The U.S. is well advised not to forget this defeat. -0-