The Korean War (1950~1953)

The Korean War Footage from Korean side

The Korean War (1950~1953) Original Footage...(Korean Side) Although the United Nations received messages that the North Koreans were about to invade, all were rejected. The United States received less than two weeks notice of the Korean War—the Chinese-authorized, North Korean invasion of the South on 25 June 1950. The CIA provided the early notice; before the war, in early 1950, CIA China station officer Douglas Mackiernan received Chinese and North Korean intelligence forecasting the summer KPA attack on the South so as to unify the country. Earlier, after the US missions had left the communist People's Republic of China, he volunteered to remain and conduct spy operations. Afterward, he and a team of CIA local mercenaries then escaped the Chinese, in a months-long horse trek across the Himalaya mountains; he was killed within miles of Lhasa, Tibet — yet his team delivered the intelligence to headquarters. Thirteen days later, the North Korean People's Army (KPA) crossed the 38th-parallel border and invaded South Korea. Mackiernan was posthumously awarded the CIA Intelligence Star for valor. Under the guise of counter-attacking a South Korean provocation raid, the North Korean Army (KPA) crossed the 38th parallel, behind artillery fire, at Sunday dawn of 25 June 1950. The KPA said that Republic of Korea Army (ROK Army) troops, under command of the régime of the "bandit traitor Syngman Rhee", had crossed the border first—and that they would arrest and execute Rhee. In the past year, both Korean armies had continually harassed each other with skirmishes—and each continually raided the other country across the 38th-parallel border, as in a civil war. Hours later, the United Nations Security Council unanimously condemned the North Korean invasion of the Republic of South Korea (ROK), with UNSC Resolution 82, so adopted despite the USSR, a veto-wielding power, boycotting the Council meetings since January—protesting that the (Taiwan) Republic of China, and not the (mainland) People's Republic of China held a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. On 27 June 1950, President Truman ordered US air and sea forces to help the South Korean régime. After debating the matter, the Security Council, on 27 June 1950, published Resolution 83 recommending member-state military assistance to the Republic of Korea. Incidentally, while awaiting the Council's fait accompli announcement to the UN, the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister accused the US of starting armed intervention in behalf of South Korea. The USSR challenged the legitimacy of the UN-approved war, because (i) the ROK Army intelligence upon which Resolution 83 is based came from US Intelligence; (ii) North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) was not invited as a sitting temporary member of the UN, which violated UN Charter Article 32; and (iii) the Korean warfare was beyond UN Charter scope, because the initial NorthSouth border fighting was classed as civil war. Moreover, the Soviet representative boycotted the UN to prevent Security Council action, to challenge the legitimacy of UN action; legal scholars posited that deciding upon an "action" required the unanimous vote of the five permanent members. The North Korean Army launched the "Fatherland Liberation War" with a comprehensive airland invasion using 231,000 soldiers, who captured scheduled objectives and territory—among them, Kaesŏng, Chuncheon, Uijeongbu, and Ongjin—which they achieved with 274 T-34-85 tanks, some 150 Yak fighters, 110 attack bombers, 200 artillery pieces, 78 Yak trainers, and 35 reconnaissance aircraft.[45] Additional to the invasion force, the KPA had 114 fighters, 78 bombers, 105 T-34-85 tanks, and some 30,000 soldiers stationed in North Korea. At sea, although comprising only several small warships, the North Korean and South Korean navies fought in the war as sea-borne artillery for their in-country armies. In contrast, the ROK Army defenders were unprepared. In South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (1998), R.E. Applebaum reports the ROK forces' low combat readiness on 25 June 1950. The ROK Army had 98,000 soldiers (65,000 combat, 33,000 support), no tanks, and a twenty-two piece air force comprising 12 liaison-type and 10 AT6 advanced-trainer airplanes. There were no large foreign military garrisons in Korea at invasion time—but there were large US garrisons and air forces in Japan.[45] Within days of the invasion, masses of ROK Army soldiers—of dubious loyalty to the Syngman Rhee régime—either were retreating southwards or were defecting en masse to the Communist North, to the KPA.

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[dhksrksalem]

fucking china government

at first give free to tibet and inside mongol, uigur etc......

[ManOfConsequences]

@dhksrksalem fuck ur US governmennt....free iraq, afghanisthan !!! suckers>>>

[krazyking008]

@ManOfConsequences

I agree With you!!!!

[krazyking008]

@dhksrksalem

America runs in their business!!!

[ehdudchl]

LOOK WHAT YOU DID. CHINESE AND RUSSIANS. WHY DID U HELP NK!??

THERE ARE SO MANY NORTH KOREANS STARVING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU DID!!!!!!

[GMT4ful]

@ManOfConsequences You support China as super power? a super power cannot support a criminal nation like North Korea, which starves its citizens to death... there u have yout China.

[skipper8843]

What's really amazing about China in this war is China literally have nothing. Chinese Navy and Airforce only formed for one year with hardly any airplanes or battleships. The only thing working in Chinese army is the soldiers. Once pass the 38 parallel, the supply is worsen and they can't really fight anymore...

[Disendant]

Pew pew..Is horrible.

[brucebu]

why do so many nations have large weapons to kill other nations with? why can't we just get along and if we cannot get along why do we need to kill each other? genocide, starvation, weapons of mass destruction....why? being a fucked up "leader", deciding the fates of millions is a job I would never want.

[freeman883]

there are so many hungery people in north korea just because of the american sanction!!! no leaders want their people sufffer poor and hunger!!! North korea is not a good place for rice produce,so american make them hugery and kill their people and make them tangly!!! to beat north korean goverment!!!........oh,my fucccking poor english!

[freeman883]

@ehdudchl 朝鲜的落后是美国人封锁造成的，没有哪国的领导人愿意他们的人民­挨饿受冻！朝鲜本来就不是产粮大国，美国对朝鲜实行制裁就会产生­大量饥民！！！

[55dickhead]

@ManOfConsequences ok im canadian not american and i have seen the video its pretty bad

[ManOfConsequences]

@55dickhead yeah and also weapons of mass destruction...BULLSHIT.. do u know who formed al-qeda?? its ur american government..and did u see the video leaked by wiki leaks where american apache shot an innocent civilians.. IRAQ WAR is all about oil>> u must be brain washed by ur own government>> and talking about terrorist> u have any idea why these guys fights over america cuz u invaded their lands..if someone invaded others land then ofcourse they will fight>>

[55dickhead]

@ManOfConsequences Iraq was controled by a brutal regime and as you know al-qeda where working in Afganistan

[BraceNemesiz]

@ManOfConsequences

yeah but your argument is going beyond the Korean war to present day China, All I was saying was that I supported countries attempting to put a stop to the spread of communism as in theory its a nice idea but it would never work and if every country was communist the world would be in deep shit. Of course the US falls into that category as its the king of capitalism, but I do not really care at the end of the day