There Were No Targets Left Carpet Bombing North Korea

Apology for the bombing could help dispel 65 years of hate.

There were no targets left carpet bombing north korea. And if north korea ever does change if the kim family were overthrown or were to voluntarily loosen its chokehold on information a u s. General douglas macarthur s plan to win was a list of targets sent to the pentagon requesting 34 atomic bombs to create a belt of radioactive cobalt across the neck of manchuria so that there. The korean war which began 70 years ago today inflicted unimaginable horrors upon the people of korea north and south of the 38th parallel. There were no more targets in korea in august 1951 war correspondent tibor meray stated that he had witnessed a complete devastation between the yalu river and the capital.

North korea s lack of industrialization limited the number of enticing targets for strategic bombing. Consequently as armstrong again points out by the fall of 1952 there were no effective. From carpet bombing to mass executions the us and its south korean allies were responsible for some of the worst atrocities. Usaf general curtis lemay commented we went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in north korea anyway some way or another and some in south korea too pyongyang which saw 75 percent of its area destroyed was so devastated that bombing was halted as there were no longer any worthy targets.

Given that the peninsula is cut by a series of north south mountain chains the communist armed forces were funneled into a limited number of routes if they wished to attack the south. This carpet bombing which included 32 000 tons of napalm often deliberately targeted civilian as well as military targets devastating the country far beyond what was necessary to fight the war. Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in total war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its morale its economic ability to produce and transport materiel to the theatres of military operations or both it is a systematically organized and executed attack from the air which can utilize strategic bombers long or medium range missiles or nuclear armed fighter bomber. The early bombing campaign over north korea was focused on targeting ground forces and industrial capabilities.