Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the United States has become the world's number one power. After becoming the world's number one power, the United States is even more fearless, often interfering in the internal affairs of other countries for various reasons, and even harming the Middle East region in the name of fighting terrorists.
Many countries have expressed helplessness over the "unreasonable trouble" of the old United States, but why can North Korea, as a hard-line opponent of the United States, be safe and sound? North Korea, as a relatively large thorn in the United States, has always been sanctioned by the United States, but it is not painful for North Korea, and the United States carried out a losing war on the Korean Peninsula that year, so the hatred between the United States and North Korea can be described as very large.
Gorbachev The Soviet Union collapsed
However, now that North Korea can live in peace, what kind of ability does North Korea have that the world's number one power does not dare to attack it?
Hello everyone, welcome to this issue of Guan Tianxia. Praise and attention to give Guan Ge a support, today Guan Ge took everyone into the entanglement between the United States and North Korea.
In fact, there are three main factors why North Korea can live a peaceful life.
Korean
First, the victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and the superiority of its geographical location
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1950 must still be vividly remembered by the Old United States, and this may be one of the reasons why the United States has been afraid to send troops to Korea for a long time.
After World War II, with the defeat of the Axis powers and the decline of British and French power, Lao America and the Soviet Union became the superpowers of the time, and while most countries were recovering after the war, the wolf ambitions of lao Mei were revealed at this moment.
June 1950 The Korean War breaks out
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War broke out, and Lao Mei thought that he could easily defeat the newly independent Korean People's Army with sophisticated weapons and equipment.
In order to protect its own interests, the United States gathered the armies of 17 countries to assist South Korea in the battle and enter the Korean Peninsula the day after the conflict.
Such a smooth war made MacArthur say that we could easily defeat the North Korean army and then let all the soldiers go home before Christmas.
Five-star U.S. Military General MacArthur
Of course, this was the case at the beginning of the battle, under the leadership of the US commander MacArthur, the US army successfully landed at Inchon, and then it was like a devastation, helping south Korea, which was almost destroyed, straight to the 38th line, and almost encountered any decent resistance activities throughout the process.
As the world's number one military power at that time, the turmoil in the United States made the North Korean army powerless to resist, and the defeated North Korean army was unable to resist, so it had to quickly turn to China for help.
Inchon landing
At that time, the US military, which had gained a bargain and sold well, decided to strike iron while it was hot, ignored the warnings of the mainland, and brazenly crossed the 38th Line. This act of Lao Mei made the great people of the mainland to defy the public opinion and decided to send mainland volunteers to a foreign country to resist the United States and aid Korea.
At that time, the new China was still in the stage of being in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt, and the new China that had just experienced the war needed peaceful development even more, but it still participated in the Korean War.
On October 19, 1950, the Chinese Volunteer Army went to Korea to fight, officially opening the prelude to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
At that time, the soldiers of the Mainland Volunteer Army threw themselves into the Korean battlefield, and the situation of the war was suddenly reversed, and under the fierce offensive of our army, the United Nations army gradually became difficult to resist.
From 1950 to 1953, for more than three years, the Chinese Volunteer Army defeated the AIRcraft and tanks of the US Army with its flesh and blood, from the ice sculpture company to the bloody Battle Song Bone Peak, from the Banzai Army to the Ace Army, and it was precisely because of the bloody struggle of the Chinese Volunteer Army that the situation on the Korean Peninsula was reversed.
veteran of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army
The people of the whole country fought against the same enemy and successfully won the battle for the founding of the country. In the three years of the Korean War, more than 2.4 million volunteer soldiers entered the DPRK, of which 190,000 volunteers remained on Korean soil forever. Although the mainland's economy was not as strong as that of the United States at that time, in the face of national oppression, the heroic Chinese people would never compromise. Chinese has always been using his own practical actions to tell the people of the world that the Chinese nation is not afraid of violence and dares to struggle.
In contrast, the United States, this heavy blow, but also let the United States thoroughly see the military prestige of the Chinese army. In the decades since, the United States has lived deeply in the shadow of defeat.
Chinese People's Volunteer Army
Therefore, they did not dare to attack North Korea easily, because the United States knew that once North Korea was attacked, China's millions of heroes would surely cross the Yalu River again.
Even if you covet North Korea, you have to consider China behind North Korea, after all, China and North Korea are also considered to be lips and teeth.
North Korea is bordered to the east by China, northeast China to the north, Russia to the northeast, and South Korea to the south by the military demarcation line 38. The location is very important.
The Korean 38th Line
Once a war breaks out, China will certainly send troops to move with the trend, just like the Chinese Volunteer Army in those years, and attack with all its might. In addition to China behind it, North Korea also has Russia, which also borders it, and if the United States wants to go to war against North Korea, it will have to reconsider whether it is prepared to fight two major powers at the same time.
If the war is lost, the old United States will certainly return to the situation after the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, with hundreds of thousands of casualties and direct economic losses of 40 billion US dollars. Large weapons and equipment such as aircraft and tanks have been lost countless times. Most importantly, the U.S. military was completely terrified of the Chinese volunteers.
U.S. F80 Meteor fighter in the Korean War
And compared with the Middle East countries that were overthrown by the United States, they must first have great value in themselves, and there are oil resources that are the envy of all countries in the world. And these are not available to North Korea, and the United States already has a little brother like South Korea, so for North Korea's geographical location, it is not already necessary.
Countries such as Iraq and Libya in the Middle East, although they have a certain degree of strength, are not worth mentioning in front of the United States, and the main reason is that there is no one around them.
The Middle East region is extremely rich in oil resources
After the rapid rise of their own country's economy, they all put on a proud posture, do not make good friends with their neighbors, peripheral relations are not optimistic, and once a war occurs, the first to profit is some neighboring countries, which is why the United States dares to act recklessly against them.
In fact, in addition to the two strong backings of China and Russia, North Korea also has a trump card that can shock the United States, that is, nuclear weapons. What's going on? Let's move on.
Second, we should have super national defense strength and seek self-preservation in the development of nuclear bombs
North Korea's nuclear weapons
After winning the war with the United Nations army led by the United States, the United States at first did not come out of the shadow of war, but after several years of development, the DPRK's tough attitude in the country has actually made this "big brother of the world" very unhappy, but because of China and Russia, the United States can only stare dryly.
The United Nations Army, led by the U.S. Military
In fact, North Korea itself is a tough country, and its military development has not lagged behind too much in recent years, and it has its own nuclear weapons.
In fact, everyone will be shocked by this, because the mainland also developed the mainland's first atomic bomb under the study of the day and night. So when did North Korea develop its own atomic bomb? In fact, as early as the Korean War, North Korea knew in its heart that if it wanted to simply rely on the development of conventional military strength, it would not be able to resist the United States, and it might still be threatened by the United States in the future.
North Korea's development of nuclear weapons
So, after much thought, North Korea eventually turned its attention to developing nuclear weapons.
Today, there are only nine nuclear weapons in the world, including five of them, namely the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, and four other illegal possessors, namely India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. Therefore, North Korea also has nuclear weapons.
Manhattan Project
In 1942, the United States launched the Manhattan Project, and on July 15, 1945, the experiment succeeded in the first atomic bomb in human history, and Russia also possessed its own nuclear weapons in 1949.
In 1964, the mainland successfully developed its first atomic bomb and conducted nuclear explosion experiments in Lop Nur in Xinjiang.
In 1964, the first atomic bomb on the mainland was successfully tested in Lop Nur in Xinjiang
As for North Korea, their nuclear weapons research was due to the help of the Soviet Union at that time, and a large number of North Korean researchers went to the Soviet Union to learn nuclear weapons manufacturing, which laid the foundation for North Korea's later weapons research. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Under the coercion and inducement of the United States, Iran and North Korea were originally ready to give up nuclear weapons, but because of the investigation of Iran, North Korea understood the importance of nuclear weapons.
But after the development of nuclear weapons, the leader of the North Korean government said that North Korea developed nuclear weapons only for the sake of national protection from threats, and there was only one reason for self-preservation. Moreover, at a subsequent exhibition, the North Korean government demonstrated hypersonic weapons that could accurately hit targets 700 kilometers away from the initial firing azimuth, even if they maneuvered 120 kilometers laterally in the direction of the target.
Hypersonic weapons
That is to say, if the United States attacks the DPRK, although the DPRK cannot carry it hard from the front, it is not without the ability to break the net with the old US fish, so the United States will naturally not rush to attack.
Third, the whole country is a soldier and united
The North Korean people are united in their hearts and minds, and they are very protective of the national policy, the cohesion of the people is very strong, and they also deeply understand the truth that the weak country is deceived.
The North Korean people are united and the people are strongly united
Compared with several countries in the Middle East, they have already had a variety of opinions within themselves because of their interests, so the countries led by the United States have found a gap and found an opportunity to provoke turmoil.
And the DPRK internal opinions and ideas are the same, so even if the United States wants to start from within the country, there is no chance at all, if it wants to make some small moves in the DPRK, there is no possibility at all, the North Korean people tacitly, because the people of the whole country and even the whole country are letting the United States have no opportunity to take advantage of.
Old photographs from the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
In the face of a nation full of resentment against US imperialism, the Korean people all have the skills to defend themselves, and if the wolf ambitions of the old United States are to be achieved, I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve easily.
At this time, Guan Ge couldn't help but ask everyone a question: Why did the United States prefer defeat in the original battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea than use atomic bombs? Obviously, at that time, neither China nor the DPRK had the ability to strike a nuclear strike, and this question is worth pondering, whether the US military wants to or does not dare? Curious friends please leave the word "curious" in the comment area, and we will continue to nag.
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Japan
You know, in the late period of World War II, the United States used Japan as an atomic bomb test base. Two mushroom clouds make the island country directly surrender, is it soft-hearted or jealous?
In August 1945, near the end of the Second World War, after Germany and Italy surrendered their weapons, the island players who had a good life still had no intention of repenting, in order to combat his arrogance, Lao Mei found two big treasures from the arsenal, and after three days, dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
Japan surrender
After trying the power of the Old American atomic bomb, Japan sincerely bowed to all countries and obediently accepted the unconditional surrender. These two atomic bombs also established the status of the world hegemon of laos and the United States at that time, and no country dared to fight with him.
Of course, this does not include the Volunteer Army to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea to defend the country. Since the balance of victory gradually tilted toward the Chinese volunteers on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, how could the arrogant US army accept such humiliation? In a fit of rage, he began to study nuclear tactics, trying to strike a devastating blow to the volunteers as he had done when he had attacked Japan.
Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman
This top-secret plan soon fell into the hands of then-President Truman, who angrily agreed to the plan to regain face. The Commander-in-Chief and the President of the Coalition Army agreed to the plan, so why didn't they implement it until the end of the war?
You may not know that in the Korean War, Lao Mei once wanted to use atomic bombs to save the war, but the great people of the mainland were not afraid, and pointed out the stakes in a few words, forcing the other side to prefer humiliation and defeat rather than drop an atomic bomb on the volunteer army.
U.S. five-star General MacArthur
MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of the United Nations, submitted a detailed and crazy nuclear strike plan to President Truman, that is, to send a large number of bombers to the mainland airspace to carry out precision strikes against the continental military industry and destroy our industrial production lines, and at the same time, to drop nearly 26 atomic bombs near the Yalu River, with the aim of completely cutting off the logistics supply of the mainland volunteers.
Old America took the opportunity to lead the coalition to counterattack, MacArthur thought that this plan was foolproof, and Truman looked at it and nodded his head in agreement with the implementation of this plan.
During the Period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the mainland's industrial production lines
However, there is a saying in China that the plot lies in the people, and the success is in the sky, and lao Mei only considers its own gains and losses after all, but ignores the twists and turns of the international situation.
After the U.S. military transported the planned atomic bombs to the military bases in Japan, Truman began to hype his nuclear strike plan to pressure the mainland to humiliate the army without a fight.
After the great man learned of this news, he sat firmly on the Diaoyutai. He concluded that Lao Mei did not dare to really use the atomic bomb, otherwise the other party would just lift the stone and drop it on his own foot. Subsequent developments have also confirmed that the great man is like a god.
The U.S. military's nuclear strike program
Just when Truman thought he was in a safe position, a number of dignitaries led by britain suddenly came to the door, and they tried to dissuade Truman from abandoning the atomic bomb plan, because the United States was uneasy about this move. At the end of World War II, the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States in Japan shocked the world and made them all aware of the power of atomic bombs.
After the end of World War II, many dignitaries also agreed not to use nuclear weapons unnecessarily, and if the United States did not abide by the agreement, several European countries led by the United Kingdom were bound to fall into crisis, after all, the Soviet Union would bring nuclear weapons to the war in order to ensure its own interests, which would be a war with great lethality.
Soviet nuclear weapons
In the Korean War, those other UN forces only wanted to gain some vested interests, and naturally they did not want to end up, not only did not get a little benefit but also put their own safety into it.
In order to make Truman determined to abandon this plan, several other countries, led by Britain, also joined forces to write a letter of protest, and if the United States insisted on going its own way, they would immediately withdraw their troops from the Korean battlefield, and then the old United States would become a lonely man, and it would be unjustifiable to want to do evil on the Korean battlefield in the name of the united army.
United Nations Army
In the end, the United States swallowed its anger and abandoned the atomic bomb plan. After learning that the president had abandoned the plan under pressure, MacArthur, who was on the front line, was furious and tried several times to persuade Truman to restart the nuclear strike.
But the other side was still unmoved, MacArthur even repeatedly spoke ill of Truman for this, coupled with the deteriorating situation of the coalition forces on the Korean battlefield, Truman directly removed MacArthur from the post of commander-in-chief, changed the generals, and let The opposite style of Ridgway to the top.
U.S. Army four-star Admiral Ridgway
Li Qiwei confidently changed a set of tactics that he thought were targeted, and although he created some troubles and crises for the mainland volunteers, at the crucial moment, the volunteers, under the command of the great man thousands of miles away, all turned the danger into ruin.
Moreover, the great man made an analysis of the situation at that time, believing that even if the United States used the atomic bomb, it was a practice that did not pay off, because the situation on the Korean battlefield was different from the original Japanese Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were Japan's military fortresses, and the terrain was flat and open, and an atomic bomb could make Japan feel the pain of cramping and peeling.
Ridgway
But the Korean battlefield is different, first of all, there is no important military facilities, and the terrain is mostly hills and hills, and there are many tunnels and air raid shelters, and the power of the atomic bomb will be greatly reduced.
Moreover, the mainland mostly used guerrilla warfare at that time, there was no fixed camp, it was difficult to find accurate targets, coupled with the wide range of atomic bombs, it was likely to hurt the coalition themselves.
guerrilla warfare
Even if the coalition forces withdrew and bombed the Korean Peninsula, the Korean battlefield would be in chaos, and it was possible that no creature would set foot on the land for decades because of the effects of nuclear radiation.
But such a result is certainly not what the US military wants to get, the coalition army participated in the war to gain benefits, but in the end the military expenditure is huge, no benefits have been gained, and a bad reputation has been lost.
The real Korean battlefield
The purpose of the United States' own participation in the Korean War was not pure, and he intended to invade the Asian region, spread his power to the whole world, and try to kill the newborn continent directly in the cradle.
However, the unjust war will eventually usher in defeat, and lao Mei, who has not tasted defeat on the world battlefield since World War II, finally lost the battle under the hands of the mainland volunteer army, and finally could only withdraw its troops back to China in a gray way.
The defeat of the American Korean War
Of course, for the United States, attacking North Korea again can be described as a hundred harms and no benefits, the North Korean people are simple, the economy is not prosperous, and there is no material and market to encroach on. What's more, North Korea is located in the east of China on the border with China and Russia, which just happens to form a three-legged situation, if a real war breaks out, for the sake of border peace, the two countries will definitely directly send troops to repel the enemy.
Therefore, the United States has always been laissez-faire with North Korea, and instead of paying a huge price in exchange for meager interests, it is better to turn it into a jade vessel and maintain a superficial peace. World peace is the ultimate goal of mankind, and it is inseparable from the maintenance of all countries, and only the friendly survival of all countries is the way to survive.
The Battlefield of The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
And the war has never brought benefits to the country, but countless deaths and injuries, families are broken, displaced, and the suffering is always civilians.
Therefore, if we want to stand tall in the forest of the world, we must develop our own strength, as long as the country is strong enough, only in this way can we be afraid of all challenges.
Brother Guan is here, may the world no longer have gun smoke, boiled beans and burn beans, the same kind should not kill each other, and jointly protect the earth on which we live is the most important.
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