Korean War Betrayal: Will it mean Korean war II?
The Neo Con's are pushing for war. They pushed for, and got, war with Iraq. The ease of that victory has led them to believe that they can take on anyone and win with similar ease. This has led to several countries potentially being the next recipient of Neo Con war; Iran, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, Syria and various other bizarre and unpleasant regimes. However, it is talk of war against North Korea that worries me most. North Korea is a heavily armed nation, whose people are fanatically loyal to it. This is unlike in Iraq, which was poorly armed, and unlike Iran, whose people and especially its young people, are very pro-Western. What is interesting about the North Korean show down is that North Korea as a state should not exist! In the Korean war, we had the chance to defeat it, and were just weeks away from doing so. So why didn't we finish the job?
In this report, we shall look at what went on in the Korean War; we shall look at the cowardly surprise attack launched by the Communists on peace loving South Korea, and how under the brilliant leadership of General MacArthur the West pushed the North Koreans back. The West was weeks away from total victory, when far leftists in the American political establishment managed to trick Truman into sacking MacArthur, and into placing inexplicable restrictions on the US military, enabling the North Koreans to recover and live to fight another day; which may be sooner than we think.
The Communist's invade
North Korea launched a sudden invasion of South Korea in 1950, and quickly smashed through the poorly equipped and under strength South Korean army. Just three days after launching their attack, they captured the capital Seoul, and weeks later had captured almost the entire peninsula but for a tiny thumb nail of land around the port city of Pusan in the extreme south-east. The South Koreans here fought ferociously and with great courage and were holding off the North Koreans. Brave though they were, they needed reinforcements, or they would fall, and another country would be put under the jack boot of communism.
Then came General Douglas MacArthur. He launched what to this day is regarded as one of the most brilliant military assaults in history; the Inchon landings. Rather than attack the North Koreans at Pusan, he used a swinging hook motion to hit the North Koreans on the blind side, and cut their forces in two by landing Marines in the lightly defended port city of Inchon. Within weeks, the North Koreans were in full retreat, with the whole of what they had gained quickly retaken, and the Western forces had driven into North Korea itself, capturing its capital Pyongyang, and within just a few hundred miles of the Chinese border. It was a rout; the North Korean communists, having launched a surprise attack, were now helpless and fleeing, weeks away from being totally defeated. It looked like the North Koreans would be beaten, their despotic regime over throw, and the country re-united with the democratic South. But leftists in high places had other ideas....
Betrayal of a hero
In October 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, fresh from his resounding victory at Inchon, met with US President Truman to discuss how to finish off the war. Or so he thought. What actually happened was Truman insisting that MacArthur's hands be tied, effectively giving the communist forces time to recover and counter attack when they were just weeks away from being defeated. MacArthur demonstrated that the Chinese army, which had entered the war on the North Korean side shortly after the allied counter attack, could be beaten. MacArthur was told he could not go any further than driving the North Koreans back to the original pre-war border, despite the fact almost all of North Korea had been captured by the allies. He was outraged, and rightly so.
MacArthur was a man of great expertise and skill, and every inch an American hero. He was the second highest ranking General in the US army, master mind of the "Island hopping" strategy that routed the Japanese and the man who had accepted the Japanese surrender in 1945 thus ending the most destructive war in human history. After this he became governor of Japan, and ruled with great benevolence and dignity towards the beaten foe, who respectfully referred to him as "Shogun", an honorific title reserved only for the greatest warriors. During his time as governor, he passed several modernising reforms, which laid the foundation for Japan to become one of the worlds greatest nations. This is definitely a man worth listening too; its a tragedy that Truman wouldn't.
Truman is strongly believed to have been under the influence of known communist sympathisers in his administration, such as Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman and Undersecretary of State for Far Eastern affairs Dean Rusk. Could it be that these men, known for their admiration of communism, deliberately tried to stop McArthur from beating the Communists they so admired? I will leave that for you to decide. But consider this; if your country is in a war, and you do everything in your power to stop it from fighting a winning strategy, what does this make you? This would sadly not be the last time the leftists would attempt to hand victory on a plate to the enemies of the West (link).
In addition to pointing out that failing to eliminate North Korea would only mean another war, he also noted that had he been allowed to attack China, which was aiding and supplying the North Koreans, he could have stopped communism there as well, thus nipping a future totalitarian super power in the bud. MacArthur understood the threat China would one day become. Speaking before a congressional committee, he said "It is my own personal opinion that the greatest mistake we made in a hundred years in the Pacific was in allowing the Communists to grow in power in China. I believe we will pay for it it". But despite this, MacArthur was told he was not allowed to carry out this winning strategy, and instead was forced to watch as Chinese troops and supplies came flowing into North Korea. Eventually, frustrated that men were dying because of the insane and treacherous hand tying of the officials in Washington, MacArthur went public and criticised Truman. Not long afterwards, he was sacked as commander of the US forced in Korea.
This was a disgusting gesture on the part of Truman for several reasons; firstly, this stellar general, historical giant and matchless strategist had become the first General in US army history to be relieved of his command without a hearing or formal charges. He was also denied the opportunity to resign, and the first he knew about his sacking was when one of his staff heard about it on the radio and rushed to tell him. This meant he was not allowed to say farewell to his troops, troops who meant everything to him. And with their brilliant General gone, troop morale dipped dramatically. Furthermore, without his insight and determination, the Communists were able to fight and eventually force a cease fire, which marks the modern day borders of the Korean peninsula.
What the betrayal of MacArthur meant
The betrayal of MacArthur meant several things. It meant that a golden opportunity to stop the spread of communism had been missed. By allowing the North Korean regime to survive, countless millions of North Korean people would die in political crack downs, gulags and starvation. The regime would later go on to develop biological, chemical and most recently nuclear weapons, with which it threatens the world, particularly its peaceful democratic neighbours, Japan and South Korea. The regimes survival meant it could start a counterfeit dollar operation, and cultivate heroin and other hard drugs that ruin the fabric of Western nations to which they are sent.
Furthermore, as history has proven, and will prove further in the decades to come, China was a threat that was allowed to live another day. It has since become an economic and military giant, and is a potential very real super power that has every chance of breaking the US hegemony in the decades to come (link 1), (link 2). We should have taken MacArthurs advice and finished the North Koreans and Chinese when we had the golden opportunity in late 1950. However, leftists in high places conspired against MacArthur, unable to bear that prospect that not one, but two far left regimes would be beaten if they allowed him to fight to win. When it became clear that he would not back down to their threats, they concocted an absurd charge of "insubordination" against him, and pestered Truman to sack him, until he eventually did. This sacking was a blot on a flawless military career of one of history's greatest generals.
Korean War II; no cake walk
In 2002, Bush branded North Korea as part of an "Axis of Evil", which included Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Iran. Given that Bush has knocked out one member of the Axis, and is believed to be planning a strike at Iran while his forces are still concentrated in the Middle East, it is only a matter of time before America attempts a show down with North Korea. The Neo-Cons are under the impression that all they need to do is launch an attack on North Korea, and then abolish North Korea as a state, merging it with the democratic South. I would warn anyone who believes this that it is a mistaken impression. The attack on Iraq was easy; the Iraqi's had no air force, no navy and a shoddy army that couldn't wait to surrender to us. The population were not brain washed, and had a surprisingly deep knowledge of the world outside Iraq.
North Korea was allowed to wiggle off the hook when we had it at our mercy. Their officials have learnt the tactical mistakes that nearly led to their defeat last time, and will not make them again. The coast line of North Korea has since been heavily fortified; there will be no Inchon landing next time. Furthermore, the North Koreans who had only geared up for a quick war last time, are now gearing up for a long war. They are stockpiling food, ammunition and most importantly fuel. These facilities are buried deep in concrete bunkers, so deep and strong nothing short of nuclear weapons can penetrate them.
The North Koreans also remember the way allied air superiority played a part in their near annihilation fifty years ago. The pilots of modern Western jets, like the F-16, are taught to engage the enemy planes at long distance, and attack them with missiles from long range. This is in sharp contrast to North Korean pilots, who in MiG fighters are taught to quickly close in on the enemy fighters, closing the distance, and neutralising the allied tactic. At close range, the fighters will be forced into dog fights, and the MiG, which is much lighter and manoeuvrable than the F-16, giving the MiG a distinct advantage in dog fights.
North Korea also has the largest commando force in the world. In the event of war, special forces units can be landed by hovercraft on the tip of South Korea, opening a second front, and special forces are also believed to be planning attacks on the US bases at Wonsan, Okinawa and Guam. North Korea's special forces combine psychotic levels of ideological fanaticism with superb military skill, perhaps the closest thing to the Waffen SS we have seen in 60 years.
The North Koreans also have Goksan artillery guns, and have over 20,000 artillery tubes pointed at Seoul, a city of over 20 million people. They could pulverise the city in minutes in the event of war. The allies employ the Paladin anti-artillery gun to counter this (link); however, the Paladin's main weakness is it only works against stationary artillery pieces, and many North Korean artillery pieces are mobile, mounted on railway lines to prevent Paladins from getting a fix and hitting them.
One final point of note is the psychology of the North Korean people. Unlike in Iraq, where the people hated Saddam, the people of North Korea idolise the leader Kim Jong Il, and believe him to be a demi-god, worthy of all out sacrifice to protect. Additionally, the North Korean people are kept constantly on edge and in expectation of imminent war, by a propaganda machine that warns them the enemy is planning an attack at any moment. The Pyongyang subway train system pumps military music over loud speakers to commuters, and occasionally barks warnings to commuters to be on the look out for spies and traitors (music samples). The subway system also doubles up as an air raid shelter, with every tunnel deep enough to withstand bunker buster attacks, and equipped with blast proof doors (link). For fifty years the North Koreans have been preparing their people for total war; how long will it be before the Neo-cons giver it to them?
Conclusion
We have seen that the West had a golden opportunity in the Korean war to destroy the North Korean regime and possibly the Chinese communists as well. We did not take that chance, because far left politicians would not let the generals take it. This meant, as the leftists traitors surely must have known and hoped, that the communist regimes of Beijing and Pyongyang would wriggle off the hook and live to fight another day. In the decades that followed, millions died, as both regimes starved and butchered their own people in social experiments and political crackdowns. The blood of these people is on the hands of the leftists, not just the Chinese and Korean leftists who carried them out, but the far left Western insiders who allowed it to happen.
Since then, both North Korea and China have gone on to develop awesome military arsenals, and have the power to inflict mass death on millions. We now find ourselves having to diplomatically tip toe around both countries, lest we "offend" them and "spoil relations". I do not know what the solution to dealing with China and North Korea is; all I know is that if patriots like MacArthur had been allowed to do their job, and not handcuffed and gagged by leftists, then we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place. MacArthur warned us that we would pay the price one day for failing to finish North Korea and China when we had the chance; we will one day find out what that price will be....
In this report, we shall look at what went on in the Korean War; we shall look at the cowardly surprise attack launched by the Communists on peace loving South Korea, and how under the brilliant leadership of General MacArthur the West pushed the North Koreans back. The West was weeks away from total victory, when far leftists in the American political establishment managed to trick Truman into sacking MacArthur, and into placing inexplicable restrictions on the US military, enabling the North Koreans to recover and live to fight another day; which may be sooner than we think.
The Communist's invade
North Korea launched a sudden invasion of South Korea in 1950, and quickly smashed through the poorly equipped and under strength South Korean army. Just three days after launching their attack, they captured the capital Seoul, and weeks later had captured almost the entire peninsula but for a tiny thumb nail of land around the port city of Pusan in the extreme south-east. The South Koreans here fought ferociously and with great courage and were holding off the North Koreans. Brave though they were, they needed reinforcements, or they would fall, and another country would be put under the jack boot of communism.
Then came General Douglas MacArthur. He launched what to this day is regarded as one of the most brilliant military assaults in history; the Inchon landings. Rather than attack the North Koreans at Pusan, he used a swinging hook motion to hit the North Koreans on the blind side, and cut their forces in two by landing Marines in the lightly defended port city of Inchon. Within weeks, the North Koreans were in full retreat, with the whole of what they had gained quickly retaken, and the Western forces had driven into North Korea itself, capturing its capital Pyongyang, and within just a few hundred miles of the Chinese border. It was a rout; the North Korean communists, having launched a surprise attack, were now helpless and fleeing, weeks away from being totally defeated. It looked like the North Koreans would be beaten, their despotic regime over throw, and the country re-united with the democratic South. But leftists in high places had other ideas....
Betrayal of a hero
In October 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, fresh from his resounding victory at Inchon, met with US President Truman to discuss how to finish off the war. Or so he thought. What actually happened was Truman insisting that MacArthur's hands be tied, effectively giving the communist forces time to recover and counter attack when they were just weeks away from being defeated. MacArthur demonstrated that the Chinese army, which had entered the war on the North Korean side shortly after the allied counter attack, could be beaten. MacArthur was told he could not go any further than driving the North Koreans back to the original pre-war border, despite the fact almost all of North Korea had been captured by the allies. He was outraged, and rightly so.
MacArthur was a man of great expertise and skill, and every inch an American hero. He was the second highest ranking General in the US army, master mind of the "Island hopping" strategy that routed the Japanese and the man who had accepted the Japanese surrender in 1945 thus ending the most destructive war in human history. After this he became governor of Japan, and ruled with great benevolence and dignity towards the beaten foe, who respectfully referred to him as "Shogun", an honorific title reserved only for the greatest warriors. During his time as governor, he passed several modernising reforms, which laid the foundation for Japan to become one of the worlds greatest nations. This is definitely a man worth listening too; its a tragedy that Truman wouldn't.
Truman is strongly believed to have been under the influence of known communist sympathisers in his administration, such as Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman and Undersecretary of State for Far Eastern affairs Dean Rusk. Could it be that these men, known for their admiration of communism, deliberately tried to stop McArthur from beating the Communists they so admired? I will leave that for you to decide. But consider this; if your country is in a war, and you do everything in your power to stop it from fighting a winning strategy, what does this make you? This would sadly not be the last time the leftists would attempt to hand victory on a plate to the enemies of the West (link).
In addition to pointing out that failing to eliminate North Korea would only mean another war, he also noted that had he been allowed to attack China, which was aiding and supplying the North Koreans, he could have stopped communism there as well, thus nipping a future totalitarian super power in the bud. MacArthur understood the threat China would one day become. Speaking before a congressional committee, he said "It is my own personal opinion that the greatest mistake we made in a hundred years in the Pacific was in allowing the Communists to grow in power in China. I believe we will pay for it it". But despite this, MacArthur was told he was not allowed to carry out this winning strategy, and instead was forced to watch as Chinese troops and supplies came flowing into North Korea. Eventually, frustrated that men were dying because of the insane and treacherous hand tying of the officials in Washington, MacArthur went public and criticised Truman. Not long afterwards, he was sacked as commander of the US forced in Korea.
This was a disgusting gesture on the part of Truman for several reasons; firstly, this stellar general, historical giant and matchless strategist had become the first General in US army history to be relieved of his command without a hearing or formal charges. He was also denied the opportunity to resign, and the first he knew about his sacking was when one of his staff heard about it on the radio and rushed to tell him. This meant he was not allowed to say farewell to his troops, troops who meant everything to him. And with their brilliant General gone, troop morale dipped dramatically. Furthermore, without his insight and determination, the Communists were able to fight and eventually force a cease fire, which marks the modern day borders of the Korean peninsula.
What the betrayal of MacArthur meant
The betrayal of MacArthur meant several things. It meant that a golden opportunity to stop the spread of communism had been missed. By allowing the North Korean regime to survive, countless millions of North Korean people would die in political crack downs, gulags and starvation. The regime would later go on to develop biological, chemical and most recently nuclear weapons, with which it threatens the world, particularly its peaceful democratic neighbours, Japan and South Korea. The regimes survival meant it could start a counterfeit dollar operation, and cultivate heroin and other hard drugs that ruin the fabric of Western nations to which they are sent.
Furthermore, as history has proven, and will prove further in the decades to come, China was a threat that was allowed to live another day. It has since become an economic and military giant, and is a potential very real super power that has every chance of breaking the US hegemony in the decades to come (link 1), (link 2). We should have taken MacArthurs advice and finished the North Koreans and Chinese when we had the golden opportunity in late 1950. However, leftists in high places conspired against MacArthur, unable to bear that prospect that not one, but two far left regimes would be beaten if they allowed him to fight to win. When it became clear that he would not back down to their threats, they concocted an absurd charge of "insubordination" against him, and pestered Truman to sack him, until he eventually did. This sacking was a blot on a flawless military career of one of history's greatest generals.
Korean War II; no cake walk
In 2002, Bush branded North Korea as part of an "Axis of Evil", which included Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Iran. Given that Bush has knocked out one member of the Axis, and is believed to be planning a strike at Iran while his forces are still concentrated in the Middle East, it is only a matter of time before America attempts a show down with North Korea. The Neo-Cons are under the impression that all they need to do is launch an attack on North Korea, and then abolish North Korea as a state, merging it with the democratic South. I would warn anyone who believes this that it is a mistaken impression. The attack on Iraq was easy; the Iraqi's had no air force, no navy and a shoddy army that couldn't wait to surrender to us. The population were not brain washed, and had a surprisingly deep knowledge of the world outside Iraq.
North Korea was allowed to wiggle off the hook when we had it at our mercy. Their officials have learnt the tactical mistakes that nearly led to their defeat last time, and will not make them again. The coast line of North Korea has since been heavily fortified; there will be no Inchon landing next time. Furthermore, the North Koreans who had only geared up for a quick war last time, are now gearing up for a long war. They are stockpiling food, ammunition and most importantly fuel. These facilities are buried deep in concrete bunkers, so deep and strong nothing short of nuclear weapons can penetrate them.
The North Koreans also remember the way allied air superiority played a part in their near annihilation fifty years ago. The pilots of modern Western jets, like the F-16, are taught to engage the enemy planes at long distance, and attack them with missiles from long range. This is in sharp contrast to North Korean pilots, who in MiG fighters are taught to quickly close in on the enemy fighters, closing the distance, and neutralising the allied tactic. At close range, the fighters will be forced into dog fights, and the MiG, which is much lighter and manoeuvrable than the F-16, giving the MiG a distinct advantage in dog fights.
North Korea also has the largest commando force in the world. In the event of war, special forces units can be landed by hovercraft on the tip of South Korea, opening a second front, and special forces are also believed to be planning attacks on the US bases at Wonsan, Okinawa and Guam. North Korea's special forces combine psychotic levels of ideological fanaticism with superb military skill, perhaps the closest thing to the Waffen SS we have seen in 60 years.
The North Koreans also have Goksan artillery guns, and have over 20,000 artillery tubes pointed at Seoul, a city of over 20 million people. They could pulverise the city in minutes in the event of war. The allies employ the Paladin anti-artillery gun to counter this (link); however, the Paladin's main weakness is it only works against stationary artillery pieces, and many North Korean artillery pieces are mobile, mounted on railway lines to prevent Paladins from getting a fix and hitting them.
One final point of note is the psychology of the North Korean people. Unlike in Iraq, where the people hated Saddam, the people of North Korea idolise the leader Kim Jong Il, and believe him to be a demi-god, worthy of all out sacrifice to protect. Additionally, the North Korean people are kept constantly on edge and in expectation of imminent war, by a propaganda machine that warns them the enemy is planning an attack at any moment. The Pyongyang subway train system pumps military music over loud speakers to commuters, and occasionally barks warnings to commuters to be on the look out for spies and traitors (music samples). The subway system also doubles up as an air raid shelter, with every tunnel deep enough to withstand bunker buster attacks, and equipped with blast proof doors (link). For fifty years the North Koreans have been preparing their people for total war; how long will it be before the Neo-cons giver it to them?
Conclusion
We have seen that the West had a golden opportunity in the Korean war to destroy the North Korean regime and possibly the Chinese communists as well. We did not take that chance, because far left politicians would not let the generals take it. This meant, as the leftists traitors surely must have known and hoped, that the communist regimes of Beijing and Pyongyang would wriggle off the hook and live to fight another day. In the decades that followed, millions died, as both regimes starved and butchered their own people in social experiments and political crackdowns. The blood of these people is on the hands of the leftists, not just the Chinese and Korean leftists who carried them out, but the far left Western insiders who allowed it to happen.
Since then, both North Korea and China have gone on to develop awesome military arsenals, and have the power to inflict mass death on millions. We now find ourselves having to diplomatically tip toe around both countries, lest we "offend" them and "spoil relations". I do not know what the solution to dealing with China and North Korea is; all I know is that if patriots like MacArthur had been allowed to do their job, and not handcuffed and gagged by leftists, then we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place. MacArthur warned us that we would pay the price one day for failing to finish North Korea and China when we had the chance; we will one day find out what that price will be....
posted by Michael | 8:18 PM
2 Comments:
Great post. Hopefully if we decided to invade Korea, it would not be with conventional weapons as Korea has already demonstrated its nuclear capability. When you have leaders such as Kim, sometimes the best policy is just to block his ambitions and wait for a régime change unless he makes that option impossible. There were a couple points that you made that I wanted to comment on.
Back when we first invaded Iraq in Desert Storm, Iraq at that time had the world's fourth largest army and a capable Air Force. American technology was so advanced when compared to Iraq that these numbers were really meaningless. Although outnumbered, American tanks routed the Iraqi's, our jet fighters took out Iraq's aging MIGs so completely that their fighters refused to fly and our stealth technology allowed us to bomb Iraqi targets at will.
Undoubtedly launching a conventional attack on Korea would be a different story as they are armed with some of the most modern weapons systems available. The problem is that the systems are so expensive that even by starving their citizens, they cannot afford the numbers needed to stop a full out attack. You mentioned their capabilities at fighting in close in air conflict. Don't forget that the F-16 is a multi-capability fighter and far from being America's best fighting jet. Without bringing in stealth technology, the F-18 Hornet, the F-22 Raptor, and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are all far superior jets and I believe we would easily overwhelm the North Korean Air Force in a full out attack.
Still, regardless of our air superiority, taking Korea I believe would cost a massive loss of life and I agree with you that if McArthur had been allowed to finish the job it wouldn't be necessary to even contemplate such a task. Truman had legitimate concerns about turning the Korean War into a much larger confrontation but I believe we could have overwhelmed the Chinese and I don't think Russia would have risked confronting us at that time(even though it contributed Soviet jets and pilots to the Korean conflict). I wonder what the world would be like today if we had really won in Korea.
great article, for the ugly history of Leftist betrayls in the US check out Treason by Ann Coulter.
I would like to clarify some points about Truman. He loved America. But he was a Democratic Party Super Patriot. So in his eyes any Democrat had to be a Hero and any non-Democrat was probably a traitor. That is why he was so easily influenced by the Leftists in the Democratic Party.
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