South Korea: The Common Struggle, Korean Army, Navy and Marine Units Help in the Common Fight Against Aggression
An English-language photo sheet headed 'SOUTH KOREA', numbered 2, opens with a quotation attributed to President Chung Hee Park: 'If we fail to block the communist invasion in South Vietnam we will lose the whole of Southeast Asia...' Photographs show a Vietnamese woman garlanding a Korean officer, a Korean Marine 'preparing to attack', a patrol, an assault boat and artillery. It pairs a head-of-state quotation with allied combat images and states the 'aggression' framing as fact.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S.-South Vietnamese allied psychological warfare programme (JUSPAO series); the sheet itself prints no issuing agency
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
U.S.-South Vietnamese allied psychological warfare programme. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-011-19.
Text on the object
2 SOUTH KOREA "If we fail to block the communist invasion in South Vietnam we will lose the whole of Southeast Asia, and the Republic of Korea's own security cannot be guaranteed." — Pres. Chung Hee PARK Korean Army, Navy and Marine units help in the common fight against aggression. Korean Marine prepares to attack. Korean troops on patrol... ...inflate assault boat for crossing the Con River into communist territory. Korean guns hit communist territory before troops make river crossing.
