# Korean War leaflets, posters and cartoons, 1950–1954

This gallery collects 46 records from the FRAME snapshot on the Korean War: UN Command leaflets run by the U.S. military, State Department and USIA posters about the war for readers in Korea and across Asia, and Jim Berryman's Evening Star cartoons for Americans at home. Cards run in date order.

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  Korean War leaflets, posters and cartoons, 1950–1954
  This gallery collects 46 records from the FRAME snapshot on the Korean War: UN Command leaflets run by the U.S. military, State Department and USIA posters about the war for readers in Korea and across Asia, and Jim Berryman's Evening Star cartoons for Americans at home. Cards run in date order.

The grid holds three groups. Eighteen items come from the military effort: sixteen leaflets in Korean or Chinese, MacArthur's 1950 letter on prisoners, and a 1951 Army photograph of a leaflet bomb being loaded in Yokohama. Twenty-one are posters from the State Department's information program and its successor, the U.S. Information Agency, filed by the National Archives with its posters distributed in Asia: Korean-language photo sheets, the germ-warfare rebuttal in eight languages, Tagalog and Thai sheets, and the eight-sheet Thai Korea Exhibit of 1954. Seven are Berryman cartoons from the Washington Evening Star, held with the Senate's records.

Most of the official sheets are not in English, and that is the point of including them. What the United States told enemy soldiers, Korean civilians and Asian allies is the subject. Translations on the essay pages are the archive's machine renderings, marked as not checked by a fluent reader, unless the page says otherwise. This site does not supply its own.

Where this site has an essay, the card opens it; otherwise it opens the FRAME record. If the line under the title says "no primary id in the snapshot," the record gives no NARA number, and none is supplied here. Most of the leaflets came to the archive through Wikimedia Commons, the North Dakota State University archives, or a 1993 paper on leaflet themes, not through the National Archives, so most have no NARA number.

The Korea Exhibit sheets of August 1954 postdate the armistice; they are here because their subject is the war's treatment of prisoners and civilians. Several of them, and some of the leaflets, show the dead. North Korean and Chinese leaflets are outside this site's scope. The parent page is US and UN Command messaging in the Korean War, 1950–1953.

  United StatesMacArthur's portrait: listen to the news at 9 every night on 950 kilocycles1950 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesKorea: Nasa Pagtangkilik ng Nagkakaisang Bansa! (Korea: Under the Protection of the United Nations!) (Tagalog poster distributed in the Philippines or Asia)1950 · NAID 5729979; Record Group 306United StatesMacArthur to the Commander-in-Chief, North Korean forces: atrocities against prisonersAugust 20, 1950 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesU.S. Holiday Toll vs. Korean War casualties through Aug. 25: 6,886September 5, 1950 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743149United StatesARCS psychological warfare leaflets and unit patch, Korea1951 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesMessage to the 45th North Korean Division: Kim Il Sung as a marionette1951 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesLoading a leaflet bomb at the Far East Command printing plant, Yokohama1951 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited States行駛的軍車是好目標 (Moving Military Vehicles Are Good Targets), leaflet no. 8526, Chinese1951 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesIs there any need to choose death for the Soviet Union and Communist China?1951 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesAir raid warning: Citizens of Pyongyang, leave quickly1951 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesWhere have your officers fled to?1951 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesComrades of the People's Army! Do you know why you are posted on the east front?1951 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited States44 Nations Condemn Red China (Thai poster distributed in Thailand)May 3, 1951 · NAID 5729953; Record Group 306United StatesSay!... Who's running this war, anyway?November 29, 1951 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743153United States공산당도배들이 한국에 들어오기전에는... (Before the Communists Came to Korea...), leaflet 13211952 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited States지게나 마차로 B-29와 젯트기에 대항이 되겠는가! (Can A-Frames and Carts Stand Against B-29s and Jets?), leaflet 82741952 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesGerm Warfare: 공산주의자들의 거짓은 탈로되었다 (The Communists' Lies Have Been Exposed) (Korean poster distributed in Asia)May 8, 1952 · NAID 5729959; Record Group 306United StatesGerm Warfare: 共產黨的謊話被戳穿了！ (Communist Lies Have Been Exposed!) (Chinese poster distributed in Asia)May 8, 1952 · NAID 5729956; Record Group 306United StatesGerm Warfare: Cộng-Sản Nói Dối Bị Lòi Đuôi (Communists' Lies Are Exposed) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Asia)May 8, 1952 · NAID 5729958; Record Group 306United StatesGerm Warfare: Nahuli ang mga Komunista sa Isang Kasinungalingan (Communists Caught in a Lie) (Tagalog poster distributed in Asia)May 8, 1952 · NAID 5729961; Record Group 306United StatesGerm Warfare: Khmer-language headline, approximately 'The Communists' Lie Was Caught on the Spot' (Communist germ-warfare charge rebutted) (Khmer poster distributed in Asia)May 8, 1952 · NAID 5729960; Record Group 306United StatesGerm Warfare: Lao-language headline, approximately 'Communists Make Up a Big Lie' (Communist germ-warfare charge rebutted) (Lao poster distributed in Asia)May 8, 1952 · NAID 5729957; Record Group 306United StatesGerm Warfare: Ang mga Komunista Nadakpan sa Binutig (Communists Caught in a Lie) (Hiligaynon poster distributed in Asia)June 3, 1952 · NAID 5729955; Record Group 306United StatesGerm Warfare (Jawi Malay poster distributed in Asia)June 3, 1952 · NAID 5729962; Record Group 306United States농민의 고혈을 짜는 공산당! (The Communists Who Squeeze the Farmers' Blood), leaflet 1243November 18, 1952 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited States你們有多少人已戴上了綠帽子? (How Many of You Have Already Put On the Green Hat?), leaflet 72551953 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited States인민군 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 83211953 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited States你們遠離家鄉 不能骨肉團圓 都是共產党害的 (You Are Far from Home and Cannot Be Reunited with Your Kin: the Communists Did It), leaflet 87241953 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited States蘇俄不肯全力援助中共 (Soviet Russia Is Unwilling to Give China Full Aid), leaflet 72301953 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited States재건되는 한국의 방직공장 (Reconstructing a Korean Textile Plant) (Korean poster distributed in Korea)February 27, 1953 · NAID 1767935; NAID 5730056; Record Group 306United States침략에의 대항 (Resisting Aggression) (Korean poster distributed in Korea)March 12, 1953 · NAID 1767935; NAID 5730058; Record Group 306United StatesTo the courageous jet pilots: the way to the free world (Operation Moolah leaflet)April 1953 · no primary id in the snapshotUnited StatesVoice of America Sends News to Korea: 한국에의 「미국의소리」뉴-쓰 (Korean poster distributed in Korea)May 5, 1953 · NAID 5730148; Record Group 306United StatesSomething to Think About Before Adopting His PlanMay 28, 1953 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743175United States"That's one Korean problem I can solve!"June 2, 1953 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743177United StatesCeiling ZeroJune 9, 1953 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743178United StatesThey really had me worried...for a few days! [Rhee says Korea will go it alone if truce is signed]June 23, 1953 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743179United StatesLet us pray it means peace (And the Free World Joins)July 27, 1953 · NAID 5730852; NAID 5743180United StatesKorea Exhibit poster No. 2a: UN resolution text (Thai, distributed in Bangkok)August 30, 1954 · NAID 6949014; Record Group 306United StatesKorea Exhibit poster No. 2b: soldier's testimony (Thai, distributed in Bangkok)August 30, 1954 · NAID 6949015; Record Group 306United StatesKorea Exhibit poster No. 2c: weapon and casualty photos (Thai, Bangkok)August 30, 1954 · NAID 6949016; Record Group 306United StatesKorea Exhibit poster No. 2d: survivor's account (Thai, Bangkok)August 30, 1954 · NAID 6949017; Record Group 306United StatesKorea Exhibit poster No. 2e: survivor's account (Thai, Bangkok)August 30, 1954 · NAID 6949018; Record Group 306United StatesKorea Exhibit No. 2 poster, sheet f (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)August 30, 1954 · NAID 6949019; Record Group 306United StatesKorea Exhibit No. 2 poster, sheet g (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)August 30, 1954 · NAID 6949020; Record Group 306United StatesKorea Exhibit No. 2 poster, sheet h (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)August 30, 1954 · NAID 6949021; Record Group 306

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