Korean War Commanding General admits U.S. engaged in Nazi-like war crimes
As the U.S. moves towards a possible peace settlement with new nuclear power North Korea, it remains true that much of what constituted the savagery of the Korean War is unknown to most Americans. This is due to historical ignorance or indifference in general, suppression of the subject in textbooks and general discourse, and most of all, ongoing secrecy about certain U.S. government activities.
Recently, at Medium.com, the International Scientific Report on Bacterial Warfare in China and North Korea, including executive summary and hundreds of pages of appendices, was published in clear and searchable format for easy downloading for free for the first time ever. This was followed by an in-depth look at a U.S. plague attack on a North Korean village in March 1952.
Better known and less contested is the fact the U.S. conducted a savage air war campaign over North Korea during the Korean War. According to one source, “During the campaign, conventional explosives, incendiary bombs, and napalm destroyed nearly all of the country’s cities and towns, including an estimated 85 percent of its buildings.”
At least one million civilians died in these raids. But most likely there were many more. The head of Strategic Air Command, General Curtis LeMay, famously said, “Over a period…
