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title: '영용한 인민군장병들이여! (Heroic Soldiers of the People''s Army!): North Korean Korean War poster, charge on Busan'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kpa-charge-on-busan-poster-1951/
description: Hand-painted poster of Korean People's Army infantry with bayonets and a grenade charging beside tanks under the DPRK flag toward a sign reading 'Busan'…
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Caricatured enemy soldiers shown bayoneted and drowned, one holding a bomb marked 'USA'; wartime North Korean battle poster. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![영용한 인민군장병들이여! (Heroic Soldiers of the People's Army!): North Korean Korean War poster, charge on Busan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kpa-charge-on-busan-poster-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kpa-charge-on-busan-poster-1951.jpg)

# 영용한 인민군장병들이여! (Heroic Soldiers of the People's Army!): North Korean Korean War poster, charge on Busan

Hand-painted poster of Korean People's Army infantry with bayonets and a grenade charging beside tanks under the DPRK flag toward a sign reading 'Busan' (부산). In the foreground caricatured enemy soldiers lie bayoneted or drowned, one holding a bomb marked 'USA'. The headline orders the troops to wipe out the 'wonssu' (원쑤, mortal enemy). The tell: the opponent is a label and a caricature (name-calling).

## Text on the object

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

```
영용한 인민군장병들이여!
원쑤들을소탕하여·부산으로·
제주도로·반[cut off at the right edge of the scan]
개갈이돌진하라!

[on a signboard in the lower centre: 부산]
[on the bomb held by the fallen figure at lower left, and on a helmet at the bottom: USA]
```

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

```
Heroic soldiers of the People's Army!
Wipe out the enemies, to Busan,
to Jeju Island, [cut off at the right edge of the scan]
[word printed '개갈이', unclear] charge!

[on a signboard in the lower centre: BUSAN]
[on the bomb held by the fallen figure at lower left, and on a helmet at the bottom: USA]
```

Read from the 960 px image and an enlarged crop; the word '개갈이' (third line) is printed as shown and its meaning was not resolved. The right-hand line is cut off by the scan edge. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← "Vorwärts zu den III. Weltfestspielen … für den Frieden in Berlin 1951!": banner on the Konsum department store](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-weltfestspiele-1951-konsum-banner-berlin/) [行駛的軍車是好目標 (Moving Military Vehicles Are Good Targets), leaflet no. 8526, Chinese →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-command-moving-vehicles-target-leaflet-8526-1951/)

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