Since the start of the Korean War ( 1950 – 53 ) , the government of North Korea has consistently denied that the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ) launched the attack with which began the war for the Communist unification of Korea . The historiography of the DPRK maintains that the war was provoked by South Korea , at the instigation of the United States : Further North Korean pronouncements included the claim that the U.S. needed the peninsula of Korea as " a bridgehead , for invading the Asian continent , and as a strategic base , from which to fight against national-liberation movements and socialism , and , ultimately , to attain world supremacy . " Likewise , the DPRK denied the war crimes committed by the North Korean army in the course of the war ; nonetheless , in the 1951-52 period , the Workers ' Party of Korea ( WPK ) privately admitted to the " excesses " of their earlier campaign against North Korean citizens who had collaborated with the enemy – either actually or allegedly – during the US – South Korean occupation of North Korea . Later , the WPK blamed every war-time atrocity upon the U.S. military , e.g. the Sinchon Massacre ( 17 October – 7 December 1950 ) occurred during the retreat of the DPRK government from Hwanghae Province , in the south-west of North Korea
Sinchon Massacre
Sinchon Massacre
Historical negationism