FTR#‘s 1371 & 1372: Korea on Our Minds, Parts 4 & 5


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Feb 10 2025 58 mins   15
Introduction: Continuing our analysis of the frightening events occurring in Korea, these programs detail the attempts by South Korean president Yoon to establish martial law, including apparent false flag attacks on South Korean politicians, as well as American installations and personnel.

Important discussion concerns the apparent launching of hostilities in the Korean War by South Korea, thereby luring the North into a well-laid trap. Of paramount importance in this context is the fact that General Kim Suk-won (who fought for Japan during World War II) was in charge off the border forces for Syngman Rhee’s forces:

. . . . He [John Gunther] says that “two important members of the occupation” went along on the excursion to Nikko and that “just before lunch” one of them “was called unexpectedly to the telephone.” He came back and whispered, ‘A big story has just broken. South Korea has attacked North Korea.’” . . . .
. . . . In the early morning hours of June 25, 1950, South Korea’s Office of Public Information reported a South Korean military attack on the border city of Haeju, which North Korea confirmed but South Korea later retracted.
On June 25, 1950, South Korean troops had provoked the Korean War by crossing into the DPRK at several points along the 38th parallel and intruding 1 to 2 kilometers into the DPRK.

Of paramount importance is John Foster Dulles' use of the Korean War to resuscitate the Axis powers of WWII in order to use them in the Cold War": . . . . Dulles feared that peace would fatally interfere with the plan to rebuild the old Axis powers for a new anti-Soviet crusade. . . ."

Key Elements of Discussion and Analysis Include: Discussion of Yoon’s presidential bodyguard (formed by Japanese collaborator Park Chung-Hee) helped block his arrest; The “Stop the Steal/MAGA” resonance between the Trump forces in the U.S. and Yoon’s backers in Korea; The South Korean intelligence service’s backing of the Ukrainian intelligence agency’s allegation that North Korean soldiers were fighting in Kursk; Detailed analysis from the Moon of Alabama blog casting serious doubt on the veracity of the Ukrainian/South Korean/U.S. allegation about North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia; Indications that it was South Korea that attacked the North first, thereby luring the North into a strategic trap; Review of General Kim Suk-Won’s role as commander of border forces for Syngman Rhee; Discussion of the critical strategic gains the Korean War provided to the West; Discussion of the cornering of the soybean market by political allies of Chiang Kai-shek on the eve of outbreak of the war; The revival of the UN Command structure and its auguring of the possibility of the resumption of hostilities; Review of material from FTR#1142; Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty’s recounting of a decision to launch hostilities against Communist nations arrived at pursuant to the Cairo Conference of 1943; Prouty’s recounting of the Okinawa harbor master’s statement that the military equipment stockpiled on that island in preparation for the invasion of Japan would be divided between Korea and Indochina (directly foreshadowing the wars that would be fought there in 1950 and 1965; The U.S.-backed assassination of Korean patriot Kim Koo, who advocated for a reunification of Korea; The meeting of John Foster Dulles, Kodama Yoshio and Korean Yakuza leader Machii Hisayuki in Seoul on the eve of the outbreak of the war; The use of yakuza and Japanese veterans of WWII as soldiers fighting in South Korean uniforms during the war; The Japanese political view that the Korean War was “a gift from the gods.”