North Korea held large-scale events celebrating an anti-American holiday for the first time in five years last month, marking a shift in propaganda strategy after censoring and hiding anti-U.S. content. 

Among the most potent images of the North Korean “Month of Anti-U.S. Joint Struggle,” which begins on the June 25 anniversary of the start of the Korean War, are scenes from the 1950 Sinchon Massacre. 

According to the North Korean version of history, during 52 days of occupation the sadistic Americans killed 35,853 Koreans, or roughly one-quarter of the county’s entire population at the time. Gory pictures of American soldiers