Freedom for Korea

Archive Report

Military Occupation of Liberated Korea

Allied Promises of Independence for Korea

Korea is the one country of Asia that received a promise of independence from the Allies during World War II. Before the surrender of Japan it was said that Korea would be the testing ground for Allied policy in the Far East after the war. Since the victory, liberated Korea has become another potential trouble spot in the unsatisfactory relations already existing between the two most powerful of the Allies—Soviet Russia and the United States.

The first promise of self-rule for Korea was given by the United States, Great Britain and China some 20 months before Russia entered the Pacific war. In the Cairo Declaration of Dec. 1, 1943, Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kaishek stated that—“mindful ...

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