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An editorial alec by the

People’s Daily World, Peking, China

HE Korean people have won the sympathy of all pro-
gressive mankind in their patriotic war to eliminate the

reactionary Korean and American aggressors.

Headed by

the United States, the whole imperialist world is using
every sort of villainous and bloody means to defeat the
Korean people, but still they advance victoriously: Now
the Korean war occupies the centre of international affairs.

During the first brief ‘days of
the Korean war, the adventurist
bloc of the imperialist pirate, Tru-
man, has displayed to the people
of the whole world its vicious, war-
like face. At the same time it has

exposed its weakness, panic and
serious internal conflicts.

All who love justice now know
that the American imperialists
armed Syngman Rhee’s gang of
puppets in South Korea according
to plan and ordered them to
launch the civil war. On the out-
break of the Korean civil war,
America instantly announced di-
rect armed intervention in Korea
and at the same time threw down
frenzied challenges to China, the
Philippines and Viet-Nam.

The U.S. government, disregard-
ing all international justice and
violating the United Nations Char-
_ ter, used its control of the Secur-
_ ity Council to direct it to its own

_ aggressive ends, scheming to

_ overthrow the principles of the

_ United Nations. *

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A long history lies behind this

series of American criminal ac-

_ tions. In the case of Korea, Amer-

_ ica has nurtured the Syngman

‘Rhee clique for five years since
the Japanese surrender, equip-
Ping its 100,000 puppet troops and

50,000 police with arms to the °

point where she felt quite’ satisfied
_ with them and considered that
these puppet troops were capable

Their adventurist onslaught be-

gan after Dulles, special adviser
to the U.S. state department, had
gone to the parapets along the
trenches at the 38th parallel and

reviewed the South Korean puppet _

_ troops’ war preparedness and-af-

and Bradley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, had visited

- Japan and returned to America’

vigilance of Korean people enr
abled them, soon after the
enemy attack began, to fling
them back and cross over to the
offensive, forcing the enemy to
flee in panic. 2

U.S. imperialism and their pup-
pets have created antagonism and
cut themselves off from the Ko-
rean people. Now that they have
instigated full war in Korea, it is
impossible for the Korean people
to spare them. :

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The heroism of the Korean peo-
ple liberated Seoul three days af-
ter their swift counter-offensive
began, Within one week, all fronts
were pushed forward 80 to 115
kilometres, and an area of 20,000
square kilometres with 16 im-
portant cities, strongholds, ports
and islands as well as 6,000 villages
were liberated.

Six divisions. of Syngman
Rhee’s total of eight divisions
were routed or destroyed. The
People’s Army also destroyed a
-dozem naval vessels and 29 air
planes of the U.S. and the South
Korean puppet and captured
large quantities of American-
made arms and equipment,

Syngman Rhee’s puppet troops

gollapsed quickly before the of-

fensive of the People’s Army. High
ranking officials’ of the puppet

clique ran away with what lug-~

gage they could carry and officers
of the U.S. army on the Seoul front
took to flight by swimming across

the river.

Yankee GI's: a long way from home and no place to. go.

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MacArthur braved the rain and
flew to the front on the 29th to
direct the battles, but failed to
halt the march of the People’s
Army. '

Guerrillas and the mass of the
people in South Korea every-
where welcomed the People’s
Army and actively cooperated
with them—expanding the liber-
ated areas in the South. The war
‘is. developing entirely con-
trary to the expectations of the
war instigators,

This clearly demonstrates the
unpopularity, corruption and
powerlessness of the Syngman
Rhee clique. It also shows that
the aggressive war let loose by

"the American warmongers and

their lackeys is against justice
and the people and, in conse-
quence, is doomed to fail, while
the liberation war of the Korean
people is just and will prevail.

But American imperialism still
does not realize that it already
faces defeat. So Truman has order-
ed appropriations of “aid” for
Syngman Rhee, reinforcements for
MacArthur, the American army to
to take part in the civil war, and
American naval and air forces to
extend their sphere of operations
north of the 38th parallel.

Truman has also succeeded in
getting Britain, Canada, Australia
and New Zealand to send naval
and air forces to join in the Ko-
rean fighting in the hope of shor-
ing up the cracking defences of
the counter-revolutionary South
Korean army,

This, of course, will slow down >
the victory of the people of Ko-
rea, who will be forced to make
preparations for long-drawn-out
and comparatively more difficult
struggles, On the. other hand,

sz: |"Wery little left...”

By MAX WERNER

The pattern of fighting in Ko-
rea now has become perfectly
| clear; the entire southern part
-of the peninsula became now one
single battlefield where the nor-
thern army is carrying out a
large enveloping maneuver
against the shattered and scat-
tered Southerners. -
- Most striking feature is the
series of landings the Northern-
ers have carried out far to the
southeast. There from the port
of Pohangdong, in the direction
of the railroad center of Taegu,
an envelopment of the southern
fighting forces is taking place.

The entire front is now taking
the shape of a big semi-circle

fell this week). It is a big man-

. no longer between the Northern

tal of the Southerners (which

euver, being executed in an area
almost one-third that of Great
Britain. From a_ professional
military viewpoint, the Northern-.
ers’ warfare is bold and imagin-
ative. It combines modern mo-
bile operations, in the main di-
rection south of Seoul, with sin-
gle thrusts and unleashing of
guerrillas in the deep rear of the
Southerners. ; ; ;
The resistance capacity of the
Southern army seems to be close
to the point of exhaustion. As
things stand the alternative is

advance and Southern defense
with American support. There is |
very little left in the South to

be supported.

American imperialism, in mobil-
izing all these reactionary for-

' ces, has also exposed itself as

being weak internally, for all its
apparent strength, to say no-

thing of its present extremely ©

confused situation.

It is obvious that the entire
strength of the reactionary forces
will be unable to prevent the peo-

_ ple of Korea from reaching their

goal,

The first and chief reason is
that the imperialists and their
quislings are completely divorced
and isolated from the Korean
masses. The Korean people, on
the other hand, are firm in their
stand for justice and united under

the leadership of the Korean ©

Democratic People’s Republican
Government. Moreover, they have
the powerful sympathy of the
world camp of peace and demo-
cracy,

Militarily, American imperial-
ism is not without its problems. It
has only a limited number of land
forces stationed in the Pacific area
and those which can be used in
the Korean adventure are much
smaller. Moreover, it is not easy
for America to send reinforce-
ments and the morale among the
American troops in Korea is ex-
ceptionally low. The South Korean
puppet army is on the verge of
disintegration, and even if it ean
be reconstructed its effectiveness
as a military force will still be
negligible.

American naval and air forces
are without doubt maintaining
Superiority at present, But they
are definitely not the deciding
factors in such a war, as was
‘proven in the last anti-Japanese

war in Chima and the present —

fighting carried on by the Viet-

Nam people against the French :

in Igdo-China. The same will be
true with Korea, Both the Chin-
€se and Viet-Namese peoples
méver had any naval and air
‘Support or a modern army, but
this deficiency never prevented
them from gaining victories,
though it posed certain difficul-

« ties,

From all this we can see that
armed intervention by the Amer-

ican and other imperialist govern-

ments is not a thing to be feared.

The Korean people’s forces,
since entering into their present
Successful offensive phase, have
been maintaining the initiative in
the fighting. The Korean people’s
forces will also rapidly develop
the armed strength of the masses,
and orientate the people political-

_ ly, militarily and economically for

a sustained war. ;

Confronted by such a heroic
_ People determined to fight to the

finish against the aggressors,
‘American imperialism can only
meet the same fate as that suffer-
ed by Japan in China and France
in Viet-Nam.

Will the imperialist warmong-
ers attempt to instigate a third
world war on the pretext of Ko-
rea? On the contrary, the reso-
lute resistance of the Korean
people will make the outbreak
of a new world war more diffi-
cult. The resistance of the peo-
ple of Korea and other Asian
countries against aggression of

. imperialists has taught the im-

perialist bloc that the present is
not the time when Hitler oc-
cupied Europe and Japan occu-
pied Manchuria with such ease.

People in colonial and semi-

-colonial countries, after the second

world war, have demanded free-

dom from imperialist oppression,
‘have unfolded national liberation

movements and, in many places,
have developed armed struggles.
This is inevitable. This is the
proud right of the peoples of these
countries, and is absolutely’ in ac-
cordance with the content of the
United Nations Declaration, the
United Nations Charter and other
international agreements conclud-
ed during and after the second

world war,

Imperialist aggression against
and military intervention in these
countries is absolutely without
basis. By military intervention the
imperialists can only thrust them-
Selves into an extremely passive
and dangerous position. The im-
perialists. are confronting serious
difficulties on the western front
ahd now that they have turned
the East into a front, their crisis
has greatly intensified. The super- :
ficial unity within the imperialist
bloc over the intervention in Korea
cantot last long when they meet —
stubborn counter-action, American
imperialism, who has opposition -
on all. sides, cannot remain en-
meshed in Korea for long. Public
Opinion and the struggle of the
people throughout the world are
effectively backing the Korean
people. The world camp of peace
and democracy which has 800 mil-
lion people behind it plus the poli-
tically conscious working class
and all other progressive people in
the capitalist, colonial and semi-
colonial countries, has become @
mighty force. The imperialist
bloc, outwardly strong but inter-
nally weak, cannot be compared e
with it. ; :

Therefore, we can be absolutely
certain that the Korean people
will win the war and the
camp of peace and democracy will
smash all the provocations of the |
imperialists, ms

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