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  2. Division of Korea - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, the Allied leaders had already been considering the question of Korea's future following Japan's eventual surrender in the war. The leaders reached an understanding that Korea would be liberated from Japan but would be placed under an international trusteeship until the Koreans would be deemed ready for self-rule. [ 1 ]

  3. Operation Blacklist Forty - Wikipedia

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    Operation Blacklist Forty [1] was the codename for the United States occupation of Korea between 1945 and 1948. Following the end of World War II, U.S. forces landed within the present-day South Korea to accept the surrender of the Japanese, and help create an independent and unified Korean government with the help of the Soviet Union, which occupied the present-day North Korea.

  4. Korea under Japanese rule - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, American soldiers frequently encountered Korean soldiers within the ranks of the Imperial Japanese Army. Most notably was in the Battle of Tarawa, which was considered during that time to be one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. military history. A fifth of the Japanese garrison during this battle consisted of Korean ...

  5. United States Army Military Government in Korea - Wikipedia

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    The problem was that even though many of the 45-member assembly were conservatives most of the members were nominated by the moderate Kim Kyu-sik, who was the Vice President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (this was the mostly moderate institution created in 1919 during the Japanese-occupied Korea era with the ultimate ...

  6. Timeline of Korean history - Wikipedia

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    Over the following two years of more stalled talks, the US and UN Forces drop more bombs on North Korea than the Allies did on Germany and Japan in World War II. Both the North and the South commit atrocities against their own citizens and civilians on the other side. Over a million and up to two million Koreans die. [168] 1953 January.

  7. History of North Korea - Wikipedia

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    Without Soviet aid, North Korea's economy went into a free-fall. By this time, in the early 1990s, Kim Jong Il was already conducting most of the day-to-day activities of running of the state, being appointed Supreme Commander of the Korean Peoples' Army in December 1991 and Chairman of the National Defence Commission in 1993.

  8. List of wars involving Korea until 1948 - Wikipedia

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    Referred in Korea as "Great victory of Chongsanli". President Syngman Rhee: Free City Incident (1921) Provisional Korea. Korea Independence Corps Far Eastern Republic: Defeat. Most of initial Korean militia was destroyed during the massacre. President Syngman Rhee: South-East Asian theatre of World War II (1942–1945) United Kingdom India ...

  9. United States in the Korean War - Wikipedia

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    The military history of the United States in Korea began after the defeat of Japan by the Allied Powers in World War II. This brought an end to 35 years of Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula and led to the peninsula being divided into two zones; a northern zone occupied by the Soviet Union and a southern zone occupied by the United States.