Walker, the then commander of the U.S. 8th Army, instructed his soldiers to kill at random all Koreans whoever they were.

Ra Yong Sun, deputy director of the Academic Research Department of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, told KCNA:

At that time the U.S. Defense Department distributed to GIs copies of a pamphlet urging them to kill anyone in white clothes in the war. Koreans would usually wear white dresses.

The truth behind the Rogun-ri massacre was disclosed by AP in September 1999, 49 years after the outbreak of the war.

According to an AP report, in July 1950 the 7th Regiment of the U.S. 1st Armored Division, on the way of retreat from Taejon, ruthlessly killed more than 400 innocent civilians in Rogun-ri.

"I begged GIs not to kill me. I cried out that I am not a foe. But they did not stop firing," said a survivor.

American soldiers, involved in the massacre, confessed that their company commander issued an order of shooting all of them to death, after having communications with a superior.

A south Korean publication criticized the massacre as "a tragedy even a ghost laments over" and a French newspaper said that "the biggest atrocity in the 20th century was committed by the GIs in Korea."

AP disclosed the fact that in the early 1970s the United States removed pieces of evidence on the massacre from the spot with technical equipment.

The U.S. imperialists reportedly murdered more than 1.24 million innocent civilians in south Korea during the war.