The origins of the Korean war

Chapter Two

• The deafest of Japan in August 1945, suddenly made it possible the fufilment of both Kin's and Syngman's dreams

The division of Korea

• Russai had agreed to join in the war against Japan
• The use of the atomic bomb meant that the USA did not need them in the end
• Soviet troops poured into Manchuria (Northern China) and into the Korean Peninsula
• There were no American troops in Korea at 2am on the morning of the 11th August
• The USA rushed troops to Korea with orders to halt at the 38th parallel, Thus Kim il Sung arrived first, in North Korea in Spetmeber 1945; Syngman Rhee arrived a month later into the American zone

The establishment of the North Korean state 

• The USSR appears to have been in better prepared for how it proposed to run its occupied zone
• Kim was welcomed in Octtober 1945
• In february 1946 an Interims People's committee was set up under Kim's chairmanship
• Mant of the landowning class has co-operated with the Japanese and the junior administrators under Japanese rule now began to flee from the North and entre the US zone.
• 800,000 were eventually to cross the 38th parallel heading south
• In Septemeber 1948 an independent government was established in North Korea
• Soviet forces formally withdrew; the withdrawal was completed by Decemeber. It left behind, however, a docile puppet state. There was a well-staffed Soviet embassy and Soviet mission; a host of Soviet advisers and technicians directed the reviving heavy industry of the North.
• The Key institution came to be the NKPA (North Korean People's army) established in February 1948. It was placed under soviet- trained commanders like Kim with a plentiful supply of advisers (150 per division) and Soveit equipment. 
• The NKPA enjoyed a privileged position inside North Korea in terms of food and…