WHEN the city of Kwangju was seized by its inhabitants last month, top US government officials called special White House meeting. The result? US troops stationed in Korea were placed on alert.
General John A Wickham Jr, head of the joint US-South Korean Military Command, re easer Korean combat troops regular duties to help put down the unrest. An American aircraft carrier was sent to the South Korean COcoL. tO DC replaced by the giant warship, Midway, soon possible.
Hodding Carter III, US State Department spokesperson, declared that the White House was 'deeply concerned •Ine strife'. For over 30 years this kind of deep concern' nas been expressed by successive US governments. America still has 40,000 troops in country. backed UD mighty Seventh Fleet, by enormous US bases in Okinawa, and by untold numbers of tactical nuclear weapoe us The government became directly involved in Korea in 1945, when Ine Japanese surrendered al the end of the Second World War. Then, the US military decreed that Korea would be divided along the JoLl Parallel. which had joined the war against the Japanese, withdrew its troops from the south US troops landed in S Korea on 8 September, 1945, supposedly to aisarm une Japanese troops two days parlie had been pean the Republic was committed to a programme of reform, equality for allu • OLICI laulcal ICUlls highly popular government, based on a network of over a hundred recognised by the Soviet Union. COLICS The Amen can LOOD. nothing less than an invasion force, opposed majority of Korean people. Yet one month later, the US government in Korea declared itself the sole government fact that it did not have a single member who spoke Korean At the beginning of 1946. the US established the Representative Democratic Council Syngman Rhee. It's true Rhee was JuS Korean women, La Korean, but he was flown back to General War United States as an emigré!
ed with a dod ison et ruled with a rod of iron. political activity WelC Despite the repression. the Korean people fought back. In the autumn overwhelming of 1946, a pre-revolutionary situamilitary mon expouca. Bike loudy s everts it was met by brutal methods of terror. By 1949 - desole unt mutay ad nad been dunsca into the South since the end of World War Two.
by CHINA NORTH KOREA Hamhüng, Pyongyang , Chongiu -Kunsa Mokpo