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In a public speech in 2003, Clinton suddenly said, "We sent 2.83 million troops to North Korea during the Korean War."
This remark was like a thunderclap on the ground, causing an uproar.
This is because the official record is only 2.83 million, which is less than one-tenth of the number mentioned by Clinton.
His statement also surprised everyone.
Some people speculated that Clinton had misremembered, some people thought that the figure of 2.83 million was too ridiculous, and some people thought that the 2.83 million mentioned by Clinton was a misunderstanding of the total number of troops.
In fact, the 2.83 million people mentioned by Clinton have not been mentioned in the Korean War history released by the United States, and if you want to know the real situation, you can only ask these veterans who fought in North Korea.
It was only after this sentence was uttered that the mainland learned that United States figures in the Korean War were very different from the official claims.
How did the United States mobilize 2.83 million troops into the Korean Peninsula when the total number of troops could not be unified?
How could Clinton's speech be so astonishing?
The Korean Peninsula in the context of the Cold War.
The Korean Peninsula, as the northeast of the mainland, was originally the territory of the mainland, but due to the stagnation of Korea's development, it gradually became the target of colonial plunder by various countries.
In 1876, the United States, Japan, and other countries took advantage of China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War to invade Korea and eventually split Korea in two, exacerbating the turmoil on the Korean Peninsula.
Initially, Japan ruled the southern part of the peninsula in Korea in the name of assistance, but as a result, the southern part of the peninsula was gradually occupied by Japan and became a colony of Japan.
Until 1945, after the end of World War II, the northern part of the peninsula was occupied by the Soviet Union, and the southern part was occupied by the United States, and after the victory of World War II, the situation on the peninsula gradually calmed down.
In 1948 and 1949, after the establishment of a new Chinese government, the situation on the peninsula gradually calmed down, and finally in June 1949, the two Koreas reached an agreement to build a unified country on the peninsula and hold elections together.
In June 1949, the Northern and Southern armies ceased fire, ending two years of fighting, and the Korean Peninsula finally ushered in its first year of post-war reconstruction.
However, with the gradual escalation of the confrontation and conflict between the two systems of the United States and the Soviet Union, the Korean Peninsula became the frontier of the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union because of its proximity to the northeast of the mainland and the Far East of the Soviet Union.
Both the mainland and the Soviet Union hoped that American troops would quickly withdraw from southern rule and shift their focus to Japan rather than continue to stay on the Korean Peninsula and the Soviet Far East.
Therefore, in order to continue to station troops in the south, the United States took the initiative to propose an agreement to divide the peninsula.
However, due to the presence of communists in the northern army, this move of the United States was opposed by the north.
As a result, the Korean Peninsula was divided into two countries, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north and the Republic of Korea in the south.
However, due to the great influence of United States in the Korea, the gap between the north and the south has gradually widened during the construction process.
It was in this situation that the North and the South had their own policies and their own policies, which later developed into the Korean War.
On June 25, 1950, the North Korean army launched an attack to the south, and the war officially began.
Because the actors who fought on the Korean Peninsula were all North Korean, even Korea, which was supported by the US military, did not react, but with the outbreak of war, the United States quickly felt the threat of the North Korean army.
Both North and South Korea are neighbors of China, and after the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, which ensured the security of the mainland to a certain extent, they did not inquire about the situation in North and South Korea again.
But United States, as a participant in the Korean War, was markedly selective in its narrative of the Korean War, in which they only portrayed themselves perfectly while concealing much of the damage caused by the war.
Clinton has also become the most popular United States politician on mainland social media, and his image in the hearts of mainlanders is also very positive, but this does not mean that he is right.
Clinton's remarks not only exposed the actual strength of the US military, but also revealed the selective narrative of the war by United States, making people want to revisit the Korean War.
Casualties from the Korean War.
United States' narrative of the Korean War certainly has a certain propaganda purpose, but the Korean War itself was a brutal war that left deep scars on Korean soil.
As everyone knows, due to the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea on the mainland, the momentum of the US military was blocked, and the victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was finally achieved.
Therefore, at that time, the victory of the Korean War was always proud of the victory of Korea in the north, but the whole country in the south was very depressed.
Whether it is the North or the South, even the North that finally won the victory, it is not entirely the US military that won, but relies on the support of the mainland volunteers.
So, Clinton has a large number of supporters on many social networking sites on the mainland, but that doesn't mean he's necessarily right.
The damage caused by the Korean War is immeasurable, and even Clinton's figure of 2.83 million U.S. troops is not necessarily accurate.
Officially, due to the atmosphere, foreign policy, and foreign policy at the time, the official number of the United States military was not the real number of the US military.
During the Korean War, the official record number of U.S. soldiers was 260,000, including 5,000 Air Force, and 70,000 Marines and Navy men.
But of the 2.83 million that Clinton was referring to, only about 1.26 million were Army troops, if calculated empirically.
What's more, in Clinton's memory, a considerable part of the 2.83 million US troops are support troops, and if it is only the army, it does not count the number of casualties.
This makes there a big disparity between the strength of the United States and the force that Clinton said, so how many troops does the United States have?
Although the truth of history has become history, it is a proof that can be referred to in the future, and it is often revealed some key information on some important occasions or speeches.
However, when the public analyzed the strength of United States in the Korean War, it came to the conclusion that the 2.83 million troops mentioned by Clinton actually included all the troops killed in combat operations.
The other part is the troops that have not yet reached North Korea, or the troops that have been withdrawn to the United States, so 2.83 million is just a count.
However, this result was not confirmed in the end, and decades after the war, all the mentioned numbers of American troops in the US military's foreign propaganda remained vacant.
At the same time, with the continuous development of social media, many aspects of information can be viewed online, but this can cause many people to have different opinions.
The impact of Clinton's speech.
Clinton is known to be a member of the Democratic Party, and Clinton's 2003 speech came at a time when the fighting between the United States and Afghanistan was in full swing.
At the press conference, many people questioned Clinton's 2.83 million troops, to which Clinton said: "If there are only 300,000, it is not as large as the army that participated in the United States Revolutionary War."
"General MacArthur was commanding an army of 5 million at the time, and now there are only 300,000, so how can North Korea lose?"
Clinton's response made people feel that the figure of 2.83 million was shocking, and many people did not know the number of troops used in the Korean War that Clinton was talking about.
And there is a big difference between the official figures in United States and the numbers Clinton said, so there are many doubts about this on social media.
On social media at the time, many people were saying, "Eat melons and wait for the truth."
And most of these people have a favorable impression of United States, believing that United States is a "good person".
Therefore, this has aroused people's curiosity as to whether the US military underreported or overreported the troops.
The United States Government issued a statement on this, saying: "The DPRK's claim that the number of US troops has reached 2.83 million is obviously wrong, and Bush Jr.'s figure is obviously wrong."
The Korean War is known by historians as "the first real war of the United States" because before that, all the wars in which United States participated were aggression against other countries, and the Korean War was the first contest in which United States participated.
Therefore, United States was also full of nervousness and fear about the Korean War, and Clinton's speech was obviously very important; if the 2.83 million soldiers were true, then the US military was almost one-tenth of the population of the United States at that time.
And this figure far exceeded the strength of the Soviet army at that time, "Chairman Mao asked Stalin about the strength of the army, and the response was 600,000. ”
Therefore, if Clinton's 2.83 million troops are true, it will lead people to re-examine the image of the United States military, and the exposure of this data may affect the judgment of well-known scholars.
Therefore, the significance of this speech highlights that for United States at that time, Clinton's speech did not conform to the historical narrative of United States.
epilogue
The less people know about history, the less reliable their judgment of the future becomes, so the truth of history is crucial, but the casualties caused by the Korean War at that time were also due to the credit of the United States and did not receive enough attention.
Due to the intervention of the US military, the Korean War was even more tragic, and in the end, no one really won the war.
Not only the U.S. military, but also many Nationalist troops who participated in the Korean War also fell into the lies of the U.S. military and coveted the "good" of the U.S. military.
But now, looking back at history, these are things that we need to reflect on deeply, and if Clinton is not mistaken, why?
The answer is ultimately up to us to find.
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