Word: koreanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian withdrawal in the north worried South Koreans more than did the vest-pocket southern uprising. The Russians were leaving behind them a firmly installed Communist regime with a well-trained army of 150,000. The departure of the Red army was intended to bring pressure on the U.S. to withdraw its troops, leaving a South Korean constabulary and militia totaling about 60,000 to face the far stronger northern force...
...elsewhere, the gesture went down as a magnanimous one. It put the U.S. on the spot. Washington could not match the Russian gesture because it knew that the Russians had fostered a puppet government in their section of Korea and backed it with a Soviet-trained and armed Korean army 100,000 strong. If the U.S. Army pulled out of South Korea, the Soviet puppets in the north could easily swallow the whole country...
Last week, after almost doubling its North Korean native army, the Russians made their offer again, this time even more magnanimously. From Moscow, just in time to impress the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, came the announcement that all Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Korea by Jan. 1, whether the U.S. followed suit or not. The action, said the Russians, was taken at the request of the "Supreme National Assembly of Korea" (the puppet government), which hoped that now "the U.S. would agree to withdrawal of its troops...
...however, was still unprepared for a troop withdrawal; the U.S.-sponsored South Korean Republic had a native defense force of only...
...Moscow agreement, Russia, the U.S. and Britain promised to restore Korean self-government in due course. They divided the country at the 38th parallel, thus impoverishing both north and south. The Russians had forced North Koreans to boycott the U.N. supervised elections which made Rhee President, and currently were cooking a Soviet-style one-name-per-office election of a puppet government...