On this occasion KCNA had an interview with Ra Yong Sun, deputy head of the research department at the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum.

Q: Would you tell me about the preparations the U.S. imperialists had made after their occupation of south Korea to provoke the Korean War?

A: The U.S. imperialists organized and expanded the south Korean puppet army and kept it under their control.

In 1949 they delivered to south Korea huge military equipment enough to arm 50 000 troops and then offered military aid amounting to more than 87 million dollars in addition.

The military aid granted by the United States to south Korea from 1945 to 1949 totaled to at least one billion dollars.

In June 1950 Dulles came to south Korea as a special envoy of the then U.S. president, Truman, and finally examined the war plan at a trench along the 38th parallel.

Q: The camouflage and deceptive ruse, employed by the U.S. imperialists on the eve of the Korean War, well showed that they were the provoker of it. Please tell me about that.

A: They evacuated the American families at the U.S. embassy in Seoul to Japan through Kimpho Airport and then other American families and noncombatants by air and sea.

They also directed movements of hierarchs under the name of weekend, travel and the like.

Traitor Syngman Rhee of south Korea played such dramas as lifting of emergency martial law, exit permit to the barracks and parties under the U.S. scenario.

At last the U.S. imperialists instigated the south Korean puppet forces to launch a surprise armed attack on the northern half of Korea from all areas along the 38th parallel at 04:00 on June 25, 1950.

But they suffered a bitter defeat in this three-year war, the first defeat in the U.S. history of wars.

If the United States, oblivious of the past lesson, dares ignite another war in the Korean Peninsula, it will face a bitterer defeat.