Chapter 85 Section Eleven

As mentioned earlier, regarding the Korean War, South Korea has relatively abundant data, while North Korea has not much data.Regarding this war, what North Korea has published is all about how it defeated the U.S. and South Korean troops and how its own morale is strong. There is almost no objective data to break down the situation. If North Korea released more abundant data, then people's analysis and evaluation of the Korean War itself would be more accurate. The reason for the "lack" of data on the part of North Korea is not inconceivable.Every country has weaknesses and deficiencies that can be blamed.The North Korean side may be worried that if the data is released, it will be used by the enemy for counter-propaganda.

Therefore, as I have said many times, it is difficult to know the truth of the Korean War solely from the news telegrams reporting the battle. There is also the issue of germ warfare in this war. According to announcements from North Korea and China, the U.S. military used germ tactics to expand the attack range from North Korea to mainland China.Regarding the evidence of germ warfare conducted by the United States, the Communist Party has cited specific examples.According to reports, a large number of fleas, spiders, house mice, voles, flies, clams, etc. have been found.For example, thousands of fleas were found concentrated together in Shunyang Village in North Korea.The population in that area is dense, with one person every three or four square meters; the fleas were scattered on a land of 300 square meters, and the ground was chosen to be dark and the same color as the large flock of fleas.The results of examination of these fleas were found to carry terrible bacteria, especially the bubonic plague, tetanus, anthrax, cholera, etc.It is said that just before the fleas were found, a U.S. Air Force plane circled the area at low altitude, but flew away without dropping any bombs.

Vibrating eggs, bacteria, and fragments of containers were photographed and widely distributed.North Korea and China have complained to the world about this inhumane method of warfare.How effective this bacterial tactic actually is, however, remains unclear.The U.S. claimed it was clever propaganda by China and North Korea. However, I think there is a degree to which the US can be trusted to spread germs behind China and North Korea. Here I think of Lieutenant General Ishii's 731 Unit who conducted bacterial research in "Northern Manchuria" during the war (see "The Mystery of the Imperial Bank Incident").Shortly before the end of the war, Lieutenant General Ishii returned to Japan, and the U.S. Army General Headquarters gave him asylum and hid him.Members of the unit were interrogated by the Soviets, and the transcripts of the trials were translated into Japanese and published in Moscow.The Soviet Union repeatedly accused Lieutenant General Ishii of being a war criminal. However, the United States not only refused to extradite him, but instead gave him asylum.

Some people still believe that Lieutenant General Ishii's research results were referred to by the intelligence department of the US military general command or the public health department. The poison used by the prisoners in the "Imperial Bank incident" was similar to the drug developed by the Army Special Research Institute, so some people even think that the real culprits may be soldiers under Ishii or civilians in the army.In this way, it can be said that Japan also assisted the U.S. military in germ warfare. The fact that Admiral Ishii did not become a war criminal reminds me of Major General Ishihara Kanji.

He is "a minister of meritorious service in the founding of Manchukuo", and served as the chief staff officer of the Kwantung Army during the Qing Dynasty.Shi Yuan's combat plan made a "great contribution" to the occupation of Northeast China.He should have been listed as a Class A war criminal together with General Itagaki Shiro, tried in Tokyo and sentenced to prison. But he was "protected" in the hands of the US military.It is said that when he returned home after being ill, he was escorted to Aizu with great ceremony by American soldiers.He lives in the countryside in the Tohoku region, watching the trial in Tokyo leisurely.These circumstances are briefly mentioned in "The Japanese Diary" by Mark Gain.Why did MacArthur shelter Ishihara Wanji?Ishihara Wanji is the "authority" in the war against the Soviet Union, and he seems to have considered the plan of a segmented battle with China and the Soviet Union.This intention coincides with MacArthur's idea.If speculation is allowed, Ishihara Wanji's suggestion may have played a big role in MacArthur's plan to pursue the North Korean army from the 38th parallel to the north in an attempt to invade northeast China and conduct a segmented battle with China and the Soviet Union.

---

Notes: