Saturday, June 27, 2015

Educating, Inspiring the Populace: Never Forget

"[A variety of tortures -- 110 types in all -- inflicted on Koreans by the U.S. were] worse than the methods of Hitler."
"While forgetting their own atrocities, the United States is in no position to talk about human rights."
Choe Jong Suk, guide, Susan-ri Class Education Centre

"I wanted to kill Americans."
"Every anniversary, my hatred only increases. Our nation must have its revenge."
"Go tell that to your countrymen."
Jong Kun Song, guide, Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities
Striking: Thousands of North Korean people raise their fists in the air during an anti-US rally at Kim Il-Sung stadium in Pyongyang
Thousands of North Korean people raise their fists in the air during an anti-US rally at Kim Il-Sung stadium in Pyongyang
"We appeal to the world to turn out in the worldwide anti-U.S. struggle to dismember the gangster U.S. imperialists."
"Asia should turn out to cut off the U.S. right hand, Africa should rise up to cut off the U.S. left hand, the Mid-East has to cut off the U.S. ankles and Europe has to cut off the U.S neck."
"The only way for the U.S. to take is to make apology before the army and people of the DPRK and hoist a white flag."
North Korean Central News Agency, Pyongyang

"We should strengthen our security preparedness and military power ... as the situation on the Korean peninsula remains unstable six decades after the war ended."
"The government will deal sternly with any provocations from North Korea."
South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn

June, celebrated in North Korea as "Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism Month" has once again rallied loyal North Koreans, seeing them swarm to war museums and gathering to denounce the unspeakable evils of the United States as the nation whips itself into a frenzy of anti-American hatred. Thursday marked the 65th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. A rally gathering 100,000 people took place in Ki Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang to inspire the people to revenge.

Anti US: Thousands of people pump their fists in unison at the end of the 'Struggle Against American Imperialism' month in North Korea
Thousands of people pump their fists in unison at the end of the 'Struggle Against American Imperialism' month in North Korea

This was a war that claimed millions of Korean lives as the North and the South struggled for supremacy. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese, dispatched to fight alongside the communist North Koreans also lost their lives, while tens of thousands of Americans, aiding the South Koreans in their determination to push back the Communist tide, also died, or were missing in action. While history notes that the North Koreans attacked the Capitalist South across the 38th parallel, the U.S. was the attacker in the North Korean version of events.

The regime keeps blame and excoriating hatred alive despite its version of history coming at odds even with documents released by wartime allies China and the Soviet Union, in the greater interests of investing its narrative of heroism on the part of the founder of North Korea, Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il, father of the current Dear Leader, Kim Jong-un. The country survived the massive deadly struggle against the evil plans of the monolithic U.S. thanks to their courage and perseverance.

The Pyongyang Mass Rally on the Day of the Struggle Against the U.S. saw the faithful gather to pump their fists in denial of American might, and accusations of the evil-doing it imposes on continents around the world, the world's sole war-mongering state bringing death and destruction wherever it turns its baleful, malevolent eye for further disruption across the planet.

Visitors to the museums were introduced to tales of atrocities, massacres and horrible tortures inflicted upon the nation. Photographs of mangled bodies, displays of skulls, spikes driven through them and paintings of fiendish U.S. soldiers and their South Korean helpers on display. One guide described a man bound to a tree, eyes plucked out, shot repeatedly while pledging alliance to the country and his leader.

History lesson: School children walk through a room displaying pictures of alleged atrocities at the Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities, in South Hwanghae, North Korea
History lesson: School children walk through a room displaying pictures of alleged atrocities at the Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities, in South Hwanghae, North Korea

Another guide described a village where the children were separated from their mothers, placed in a pit underground where American soldiers poured gasoline down air vents killing the children, before retreating. More than adequately persuading North Koreans that their isolation from the world at large is for their own protection from the scourge of American notice.

And that their resolute, intrepid, courageous leader is resolved to keep them from all future harm. They must continue to depend on him and his peerless entourage to ensure that the country is protected from those who plan to do it harm, from South Koreans to Americans, all plotting the downfall of the most wonderful country in the world to be a citizen in.

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