On the 76th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War on the 25th, North Korea poured out propaganda reports highlighting its will to resist against the United States and South Korea, repeating the claim that the Korean War was a "north invasion (an invasion from the south to the north)."
Across North Korea, "vow of revenge rallies" were also held to incite residents' hostility toward the United States and South Korea.
Rodong Sinmun, the Labor Party's organ newspaper, made this claim in an editorial titled "The U.S. imperialists are the provocateurs of the Korean War," published on page 6 that day.
The paper said, "In the early dawn of June 25, 1950, the South Korean puppet army launched an armed invasion against our republic."
It added, "Because of the U.S. imperialists' provocation of war, our people and army had no choice but to wage a grim 1,129-day war to defend the Cho Kuk and repel the imperialist armed invasion to protect their destiny and future."
Regarding the United Nations Command's participation in the war under a United Nations Security Council resolution, it claimed it was "entirely according to the U.S. imperialists' script and completely illegal."
On page 1 that day, the paper emphasized hostility toward the United States and the South with an editorial titled "Let all the people become guardians of the revolution, the vanguard fighters of the class, firmly armed with anti-imperialist class consciousness."
The paper said, "Let us steel ourselves as guardians of the revolution and vanguard fighters of the class, filled with surging hatred of the U.S. imperialists and class enemies and the will to annihilate them, achieve a decisive victory in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. confrontation, and endlessly glorify our-style socialism."
It added, "The issue of the new generations firmly carrying forward the baton of class struggle is a weighty task directly linked to the destiny of the Cho Kuk and the prospects of the revolution." It continued, "Regardless of how the situation changes, the people and service members must not harbor the slightest illusion or lingering attachment about the enemy and peace."
In places such as the Central Class Education Hall's education yard in downtown Pyongyang and the Youth Park outdoor theater, vow of revenge rallies were held mainly by the Socialist Women's Union of Korea and students. The rallies claimed that the Korean War began with a U.S. imperialist north invasion.
It added, "Each time June 25 comes, which brought unprecedented disaster upon the land of the Cho Kuk, our surging hatred toward the U.S. imperialists, our mortal enemies, boils over even more."