인민군 동지들이여! 그대들은 왜 동부전선에 배치되어 있는지 아는가? (Comrades of the People's Army, Do You Know Why You Are Posted on the Eastern Front?), leaflet 8321
A Korean-language leaflet in two drawn panels and four text blocks asking North Korean soldiers why they are posted on the Eastern Front. It answers with the terrain and supply, then with United Nations naval gunfire, and concludes that Chinese troops hold the easier ground because they 'in fact rule North Korea'. The tell is a short list of selected conditions presented as proof of one motive, aimed at dividing allies.
- Date
- 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- United Nations Command psychological warfare (U.S. Army), serial 8321; issuer not named on the leaflet
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Korean War
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan of a U.S. psychological warfare leaflet; image via psywarrior.com), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. federal government work, 17 U.S.C. 105; Commons file page)
U.S. federal government (Army psychological warfare); scan via psywarrior.com; Wikimedia Commons. The file page tags it public domain as a federal work; the leaflet names no issuer.
Text on the object
[Top:] 인민군 동지들이여 ! 그대들은 왜 동부전선에 배치되어 있는지 아는가 ? [Beside upper picture:] 그것은 중공군이 배치되어 있는 서부전선의 평야보다도 동부전선은 전투에 불리한 산악지대며 교통도 불편해서 군수 보급이 잘 안되는 곳이기 때문이다. [Beside lower picture:] 게다가 동부 전선은 항상 유엔군의 격심한 함포 사격으로 막대한 병력을 손실 당하고 있는 때문이다. [Bottom:] 중공군이 실질적으로 북한을 지배하고 있기 때문에 중공군은 편리한 지대에 배치되고 인민군은 이러한 위험지대에서 죽을 고생을 하고 있는 것이다. [Lower right, serial:] 8321
[Top] Comrades of the People's Army! Do you know why you are posted on the Eastern Front? [Upper] It is because the Eastern Front is a mountainous zone, unfavourable for fighting and with poor communications, where military supplies do not get through well, compared with the plains of the Western Front where the Chinese Communist army is posted. [Lower] And moreover the Eastern Front is always suffering enormous losses of troops from the heavy naval gunfire of the United Nations forces. [Bottom] Because the Chinese Communist army in fact rules North Korea, the Chinese army is posted in a convenient zone, while the People's Army is going through a deadly ordeal in such a danger zone.
Read from a 960 px enlargement of a low-resolution scan; a few syllables are small, but the wording matches the clear passages.
