Korea Exhibit No. 2 poster, sheet h (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)
A Thai-language sheet from a Korea exhibit set. A tilted photograph shows two long rows of bodies laid out on a road below cave openings while workers carry stretchers; a red handprint and red smear are printed over and below it. The text states that 300 Korean civilians were confined to death by retreating North Korean troops in caves near Hamhung after being flogged. The tell is the mass-casualty photograph with an accusation of atrocity against one side.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- 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
- NARA, RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, August 30, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949021, 306-PPB-142h).
Text on the object
ศพของพลเรือนชาวเกาหลี ๓๐๐ คนที่ถูกทหารเกาหลีเหนือขณะที่ล่าถอยขังไว้จนตาย ในถ้ำต่าง ๆ ใกล้เมืองฮัมฮุง บุคคลเหล่านี้ถูกโบยก่อนแล้วจึงส่งตัวเข้าขังในถ้ำ
Bodies of 300 Korean civilians whom North Korean troops, while retreating, confined until they died, in various caves near the city of Hamhung. These persons were first flogged and then sent into confinement in the caves.
Thai script read from the image; the numeral is printed in Thai digits (๓๐๐ = 300). The first clause is grammatically incomplete as printed.
