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title: 'Korea Exhibit poster No. 2a: UN resolution text (Thai, distributed in Bangkok)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korea-exhibit-2a-un-resolution-pow-atrocities-thai-bangkok-1954/
description: 'A Thai-language exhibit sheet showing a page headed with the United Nations emblem: a resolution on atrocities committed by North Korean and Chinese'
section: Collection
---

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# Korea Exhibit poster No. 2a: UN resolution text (Thai, distributed in Bangkok)

A Thai-language exhibit sheet showing a page headed with the United Nations emblem: a resolution on atrocities committed by North Korean and Chinese Communist forces against United Nations prisoners of war in Korea, approved 3 December 1953 by a vote of 42 to 5 with 10 abstentions. The page sits on a dark brush-stroke ground. The tell is transfer: the UN emblem and the form of an official resolution lend institutional authority to the accusation.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Thai) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[UN emblem]
ญัตติ: เรื่องกองทัพเกาหลีเหนือและจีนคอมมูนิสต์ กระทำทารุณกรรมต่าง ๆ
ต่อทหารสหประชาชาติที่ตกเป็นเชลยศึกในเกาหลี
อนุมัติแล้ว: เมื่อวันที่ ๓ ธันวาคม พ.ศ. ๒๔๙๖
คะแนนเสียง: เห็นชอบด้วย ๔๒ คัดค้าน ๕ ไม่ออกเสียง ๑๐
เอกสารเลขที่: [illegible]
บันทึกต่อสมัชชา: ญัตตินี้ ออสเตรเลีย ฝรั่งเศส ตุรกี สหราชอาณาจักร และสหรัฐเป็นเจ้าของเรื่อง (เอกสาร เอ/แอล/๑๖๙) และได้ผ่านไปโดยไม่ต้องส่งให้กรรมาธิการพิจารณา
สมัชชาอนุมัติแล้ว: เอ/ญัตติ/๑๖๑

ข้อความในญัตติ
[body paragraphs follow; not transcribed]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[UN emblem]
Resolution: Concerning the various atrocities committed by North Korean and Communist Chinese forces against United Nations soldiers who became prisoners of war in Korea.
Approved: on 3 December B.E. 2496 [1953].
Vote: in favour 42, against 5, abstaining 10.
Document number: [illegible]
Note to the Assembly: this resolution was sponsored by Australia, France, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States (document A/L/169) and passed without referral to a committee.
Assembly approved: A/Resolution/161.

Text of the resolution
[body paragraphs follow; not transcribed]
```

Header and heading transcribed; the dense body paragraphs of the resolution are not transcribed. Reading of the document numbers is tentative.

[← Operation Freedom small poster 224e: child and chopsticks (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/operation-freedom-small-poster-224e-child-and-chopsticks-vietnamese-saigon-1954/) [Korea Exhibit poster No. 2b: soldier's testimony (Thai, distributed in Bangkok) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korea-exhibit-2b-weinel-testimony-thai-bangkok-1954/)

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