Statement by the Deputy
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, July 4,1950
The events now taking place in
Korea broke out on June 25 as the result of a provocative attack by the troops
of the South Korean authorities on the frontier areas of the Korean People's
Democratic Republic. This attack was the outcome of a premeditated
plan.
From time to time Syngman Rhee
himself and other representatives of the South Korean authorities had blurted
out the fact that the South Korean Syngman Rhee clique had such a
plan.
As long ago as October 7, 1949,
Syngman Rhee, boasting of success in training his army, stated outright, in an
interview given to an American United Press correspondent, that the South
Korean Army could capture Pyongyang in the course of three days.
On October 31, 1949, Sin Sen Mo,
Defence Minister of the Syngman Rhee Government, also told newspaper
correspondents that the South Korean troops were strong enough to act and take
Pyongyang within a few days. only one week before the provocative attack of the
South Korean troops on the frontier areas of the Korean People's Democratic
Republic, Syngman Rhee said, in a speech on June 19 in the so-called "National
Assembly" where Mr. Dulles, adviser to the U.S. State Department, was present:
"If we cannot protect democracy in the cold war, we shall win in a hot
war."
It is not difficult to understand
that representatives of the South Korean authorities could only make such
statements because they felt that they bad American support behind them. one
month before the present developments in Korea, on May 19, 1950, Mr. Johnson,
chief American administrator of aid to Korea, told the American Congress House
of Representatives' Appropriations Committee that 100,000 officers and men of
the South Korean Army, equipped with American weapons and trained by the
American Military Mission, bad completed their preparations and could begin war
at any time.
It is known that only a few days
before the Korean events, the United States Defence Secretary, Mr. Johnson, the
Chief of the General Staff of the United States Armed Forces, General Bradley,
and the State Department adviser, Mr. Dulles, arrived in Japan and had special
conferences with General MacArthur, and that afterwards Mr. Dulles visited South
Korea and went to frontier areas on the 38th Parallel.
Only one week before the events-on
June 19-Mr. Dulles, adviser to the State Department, declared in the
above-mentioned "National Assembly" of South Korea that the United States was
ready to give all necessary moral and material support to South Korea which was
fighting against Communism.
These facts speak for themselves
and need no comment. . . .
The United States Government tries
to justify armed intervention against Korea by alleging that it was undertaken
on the authorisation of the Security Council. The falsity of such an allegation
strikes the eye.
What really happened? It is known
that the United States Government had started armed intervention in Korea before
the Security Council was summoned to meet on June 27, without taking into
consideration what decision the Security Council might take. Thus the United
States Government confronted the United Nations Organisation with a fait
accompli, with a violation of peace.
The Security Council merely
rubber-stamped and back-dated the resolution proposed by the United States
Government, approving the aggressive actions which this Government had
undertaken. . . .
The illegal resolution of June 27,
adopted by the Security Council under pressure from the United States
Government, shows that the Security Council is acting, not as a body which is
charged with the main responsibility for the maintenance of peace, but as a tool
utilised by the ruling circles of the United States for unleashing war. This
resolution of the Security Council constitutes a hostile act against
peace.
If the Security Council valued the
cause of peace, it should have attempted to reconcile the fighting sides in
Korea before it adopted such a scandalous resolution. only the Security Council
and the United Nations Secretary-General could have done this. However, they did
not make such an attempt, evidently knowing that such peaceful action
contradicts the aggressors' plans.