Korea Exhibit poster No. 2c: weapon and casualty photos (Thai, Bangkok)

A Thai-language exhibit sheet with two photographs joined by a red arrow. Top: a uniformed American soldier holds up a drum-magazine submachine gun at a microphone; the caption says American soldiers examined Russian machine guns used by North Korean and Chinese Communist soldiers in the Korean war. Bottom: a soldier lying dead on rocks, captioned 'This is the result of the Communist atrocities.' The tell is outrage-bait: the arrow links a weapon to a body and assigns blame in the caption.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Outrage baitTransfer

Date

August 30, 1954

Period

Cold War

Made by

U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Eisenhower Administration

Leader

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Demonize

Theme

War and the military

Event

Korean War

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, 30 August 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949016, 306-PPB-142c).

ทหารอเมริกันตรวจสอบปืนกลเบารัสเซียที่ทหารเกาหลีเหนือ
และจีนคอมมูนิสต์ใช้ในสงครามเกาหลี

นี่คือผลจากการทารุณกรรมของฝ่ายคอมมูนิสต์

American soldiers examine Russian light [sub]machine guns that North Korean and Chinese Communist soldiers used in the Korean war.

This is the result of the atrocities of the Communist side.