To mark the 58th anniversary of the Korean War, the North Korean regime’s rigidly-controlled media has published this ‘commentary’ lashing out the publication of a new book being distributed to South Korean students praising the United States and General Douglas MacArthur for saving their nation from communist domination.
“This is part of the sinister plot by pro-U.S. conservative forces to quell the spirit of independence and resistance to the United States, which is growing ever-stronger among adults and young people in south Korea.’
COMMENTARY
June 24, 2008
North Korea – Korea Central News Agency – Home Page
Pyongyang: In Seoul, the “Reservists’ Association,” an ultra-right-wing group in south Korea, recently published and distributed copies of an anti-communist comic book called Proper Understanding of June 25 War [actually, the book is called Spreading Correct Knowledge of the Korean War] not only to primary, middle and high school students but to kindergarteners as well, stirring up great public furor.
Commenting on this on Tuesday, the Rodong Sinmun calls the comic book “extremely reactionary,” given that it describes man-killer MacArthur as a “benefactor” and “hero,” although he inflicted immeasurable misfortune and disaster upon the Korean nation. It also claimed that any call for a withdrawal of U.S. forces from the south Korea would be the same as being “taken in by the north’s strategy.”
What is even more intolerable is that the author of the book described the April 3 People’s Uprising on Jeju Island and the Ryosu Resistance – the justified resistance movement of national salvation by the south Korean people – as “atrocities,” by linking them to the north.
READ ON AT WORLDMEETS.US, along with continuing South Korean and North Korean coverage of the Korean War anniversary.
