Word: koreanizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasant May afternoon in Seoul has been disturbed for several hours now by a long blast of Korean oratory, hurled into the streets from a loudspeaker in a former Japanese bank building. "We will fight for independence," an unseen speaker shouts, "until the last Korean is dead!" Other voices are summoning Koreans to a mass meeting on behalf of freedom...
...Matter of Semantics. Seven weeks ago a delegation of 120 Russians came down from their zone north of the 38th parallel. They were led by rotund Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, who said: "The Soviet people warmly support ... a free way of life ... for the Korean people." Inside the pillared grey walls of Seoul's Duk Soo Palace, General Shtykov and four top comrades began a series of talks with five U.S. officers, led by strapping Major General Archibald V. Arnold...
...joint commission sought to "implement the directive" (as they say in Washington) of last December's Conference of Foreign Ministers in Moscow, which called for a provisional Korean government. Koreans were supposed to be consulted, but the Russian idea of which Koreans to consult differed radically from the American...
...zone skeptics called the provisional regime a "Soviet puppet," charged that Kim II Sung was an impostor trading on the name of a legendary Korean resistance leader...
...street below the conference room, some 600 anti-Communist students demonstrated with banners denouncing the Moscow Conference suggestion of an Allied trusteeship (maximum five years). Then the Korean police stepped in, impartially raided both the headquarters of the left-wing "Youth's Preparatory Army" (estimated strength 3,000) and of the right-wing "Army" (estimated strength...