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Rodong Sinmun on U.S. Attempted Use of Nuclear Weapons during Korean War

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists' moves to stifle the DPRK over the nuclear issue is an extension of the nuclear war strategy pursued by them during the Korean war, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a signed article giving a detailed account of the attempts made by the U.S. imperialists to mount a nuclear attack on the DPRK during the war. The article continues:
    The U.S. developed A-bomb in July 1945 and worked out a plan to make the first use of the bombs in the Korean war at the instruction of the then U.S. President Truman before the war. It had in place hundreds of A-bombs and strategic bombers, their delivery means, just before the outbreak of the war.
    After making preparations for the nuclear war the U.S. warhawks launched the Korean war and attempted to use nukes whenever they found themselves in a difficult situation. McArthur, the then commander-in-chief of the U.S. forces in the Far East, proposed the issue of using A-bombs in the Korean war to Truman on July 7, 1950.
    He convened a special meeting of the National Security Council and a meeting of the Defense Department one after another on November 29, 1950 at which he raised the same issue and even issued a statement titled "Use A-bombs in North Korea." The U.S. imperialists then deployed strategic bombers carrying A-bombs in their air force base in Okinawa.
    The U.S. imperialist warmongers loudly talked about the use of A-bombs so as to conduct the adventurous "containment offensive" in January 1951. They contemplated dropping the bombs in "iron delta zone" linking Cholwon, Kimhwa and Phyonggang, while making preparations for an adventurous "big offensive" from April.
    232-page book "Modern History of U.S. Diplomacy" published by Pibong Publishing House of south Korea in 1998 said "according to a recent confirmation, 30 or 40 nuclear warheads had already been introduced and stored in south Korea in 1951. And targets were also designated at one time."
    From December 2 to 5, 1952 soon after he was elected president, Eisenhower flew into south Korea and asserted the use of A-bombs as part of "the counter-strategy to settle the military stand-off in the Korean war." In his first "state of the union address" made on February 2, 1953 he proposed the use of nuclear bombs in the "new offensive".
    According to a scenario worked out by him, the meeting of Joint Chiefs of Staff held on April 20, 1953 made a plan to use A-bombs in case they fail to reach an "honorable ceasefire". On May 19, 1953 the Defense Department again instructed the Joint Chiefs of Staff to propose the issue of using A-bombs.
    The chiefs of staff of the three services of the U.S. forces submitted the proposal for a wide use of A-bombs for strategic and tactical purposes to the National Security Council and got its approval. Timed to coincide with this, Dulles who was appointed as State Secretary blustered that the U.S. would use A-bombs in Korea, opening to the public the results of the test of nuclear weapons, in a bid to make its counterpart meekly accept its demand at the truce talks.
    Disclosing the persistent attempts made by the U.S. imperialists to mount a nuclear attack on the DPRK during the Korean war, the article says that the danger of a nuclear war is increasing on the Korean peninsula due to the bellicose Bush group's adventurous moves to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on it.
    If the U.S. imperialists pursue the strategy to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK, misjudging its strength, they will sustain an irrevocable defeat and death, the article stresses.