Word: kyongsang
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Lieut, General John R. Hodge, commander of U.S. occupation forces, declared martial law for Kyongsang-Pukto Province. Communist agitators could find receptive audiences in some sectors of the U.S. zone. Monumentally ill-equipped at war's end to occupy or govern Korea, the U.S. is still trying to live down initial errors: the bad feeling created by retaining Japanese police, however briefly, as a temporary control force (the Soviets booted them quickly and efficiently in the north) ; a willingness to string along with doddering Korean oldsters, instead of young, competent and popular leaders; the crowning fiasco of abandoning rice...
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