The end of the Korean War reflected in the Bulgarian newspaper ‘Rabotnichesko Delo’

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Bulgarian newspaper ‘Rabotnichesko delo’ (Nodong sinmun) was the first newspaper in the country to give information about the Korean War. Just one day after the beginning of the War there appeared some news about the battles and even an article written by Kim Il Sung was presented. During the first one month of the War, in the newspaper were published more than 250 news about Korea and more appeared almost every day for the first year. There was some information about the War every week during the second year and also weekly during the third year 1953. Bulgarian poets wrote poems about Korea, the fraternity between the Bulgarian and the Korean people and the evil enemy of the peace - America. According the Bulgarian ‘Rabotnichesko delo”, the War started by South Korea but soon it was found the real enemy was the American army. After the attack of the Republic of Korea, North Korea had to react. They started to fight against the Americans with a ‘righteous war’for the unification of the people. The newspaper announces the atrocity of the foreign army that occupied the southern part of the peninsula, praise the North Korean army that is going south to liberate the oppressed Korean people and gives a lot of information about the Bulgarian people reaction to the War. On many places in Bulgaria people raised their voice for peace and wrote letters to UN to blame the Americans and to declare the Bulgarian support to North Korean people. According ‘Rabotnichesko delo’ the War finished with the victory of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Americans lost the battles. The newspaper presents the North Korean point of view but also cites Chinese newspapers and American newspapers as well to give a full information from all over the world.

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