NORTH KOREAN PROPAGANDA ON THE CEASE-FIRE NEGOTIATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: April 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Kore
SUBJECT North Xorean
Negotiations
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16 April 1952
Announcements by Official:7,
1, In early February 1952 an official of the Worth Korean Labor Party. arrived in
(126-7., 37053) (BS-7396) and delivered a lectmre on the main
street to residents of the vilaue. The following are some excerpts from his
speech:
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"It is the plzn, of our leaders that absolutely no cease-fire be achieved,
This year there will to a 2,71mmer offensive as the first phase of au al10but
offensive operation. In case of a temporary fzilure in this summer operation) our
armed forces will be rorganiz,ed. to start another offensive to occupy all of Xorea
by the end of this year. Mao, the liberation for whit h you all aspire will be
attained
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"This plan was mot d. ed solely by the North. Korean governme7ft, but is one which
has been worked oUt by the great Stalin in light of the -world sityation. For this
reason we have nothing ti ; ff:ar?, No plan of Stalia9s has failed., from the beginning
to the end of World War LE. The?ptrpose of the-pcesent teavorary state of affairs
in which a ceasefire ti,pperi_ to be imminent is to ascertain the capabilities '
and will of the T'Ited States. NO cease..fire will take'pode. Taking these ..facts
into consideratiop y= people must put forward your greatest effort3 in the
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2... In November 1951 offieials of the IlAngchgan people committee ie. worth
Namuong-Frovince stae,ed in public Speecb.es that North ranitt. TRECrJad be united with
the Chinese Communist govferament. Other propagaLeida being spresel in late 1951 by
the government was -!,Nit there would, never be a third world war beewase of the
power of Soviet Russia, regard.1 ess of the outcome of enegoti a4;ions
General Prota, suA,,La
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. In areiesxy 1952 the North Korean government was ciretuating the following rrrapaganda
themes on the cease-f Ire .eottio!s:
a. The 1.73:eited Sta,te.s pooposed the negotiations becaaiEe she needed the tine to
reizictorce, her weakenei units in the face of Comm,.rei.st strength, send is
delayg the ?O le.t.teationally'S'!).t7179,1-, s?;?.4..e. may e,,..,kap:1,-e.ete her -
preparations for another offensi.ve.-
b, the cnited States certirues to mel et an banning airfield construction during
an armietice becaeze she fears North Korean air power and wants to polonie
Korea by interfering-in North Korean internal affairs.
c. The Tinited States arbitrarily obiee,ts to the O,Trafriunist proposals for an all.
fora,11. prismee el war aKchange. No provision for a man-for-man POW exchange
system can be foend in the e'n,Leva Convention. rieTdtedtee, in insist-I-rig
on the repatriation of civilians who had been righ:',..1sts byt later joined us
of their own free vi3.1? is ignoring man.'s freed,om of conseience.
d. The people of all countries whose sons are fighting in KO-rea conduct
demonstrations almoet d. ily protesting against continuiDg the Wax for the
sole benefit-of-the United States.
Some North Koreans regarLed the above statements as only the uieekt1 prOpagenda line
and believed '"chat, the North, Korean gove7eriment was ito(31f delaying the negotiations
to gain time to reicrce its armies, would sigi a peace only wider very favorable
conditions, and mLghtmowit a new offensive whether co notra,:e armistice was reached.
North Korean propagaeda in the Kaesong area has empreasined, the term "peace negotiwof
time in referring -to ti,e- ceaee.ftee talks. Most :Kaeserg residents want the talks
to fail, since they fear the area will COMO under North Korean rale if a peace is
signed. They do not believe a trace will be reached., Novenr, because the
objectives of the parties- to the ta,lit's vary so widely. FAel,%Xlg residents compare
unfavorably theirprr,...',Skin'; thfe to that Lvder the ROK gtn'e.72:Zin..t before the war,
When they heard. that PriNO7Len.-3 of wax were to be exchanged, some men in esong
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in this way
5. One North Scorean Trepa,garila: story being spread -widely in Pvyongyang in early 1952
was -nat l ates P,---LZPs raiding the city recent-4 have dropped, many dud bombs
on the city, the benre being :t':LULed with messages- And red nage from Ameripan
workers addressed to North Korean 'workers. The propaganda Ithe is that while
capitalists in the 'Gifted. States wish to hinder the negotiations and prolong the
war, Amer.ican labore:es ezie opposed, to the war and sabotage tae wax effort by
placing messages and flags in the baiefe instead of fil2ling them with explosives.
The poyalal-don generally did. not believe -this propaganda, 17,owever, because no one
had. ever seen such bombs and they kciow that North 1C071%.2, propaganda has often been
false.
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Comment. Note that the town in which, the senh was rade is in South
an Compare the aggreesive air of the speech with
the North Korean att"Ltude reported in paragraph. 4?
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