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Park, Hong-Kyu, American-Korean Relations, 1945-1953:
A Study in United States Diplomacy. Doctor of Philosophy
(History), May, 1981, 291 pp., bibliography, 200 titles.
Based on the appropriate archival collections, official
documents, and various published materials, this disser-
tation is an investigation of American diplomacy in Korea
from 1945 to 1953. Between the end of World War II and the
close of the Korean fighting, the United States moved from
a limited interest in Korea to a substantial involvement in
that nation's affairs.
Korea's liberation from the thirty-five years of
Japanese colonial rule came on August 15, 1945, with the
Japanese surrender at the end of World War II. Just before
the Pacific War ended, the United States proposed, and the
Soviet Union accepted, the temporary division of Korea at
the 38th parallel as a means of disarming local Japanese
forces on the peninsula. American troops occupied the
southern half of Korea up to the dividing line, facing a
Soviet-occupied North Korea. This temporary military
division became permanent as cold war politics came to domi-
nate the policies of the United States and the Soviet Union.
Unable to arrange a settlement with Russia for the
reunification of divided Korea, the United States referred
the Korean problem to the United Nations. The Soviet
refusal to cooperate with U.N.-supervised elections in Korea
led to the emergence of two rival Korean governments. This
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