@article{ART002030026},
author={Park, TaeGyun},
title={Korea’s Liberation from Japan in 1945 from the US Perspective},
journal={military history},
issn={1598-317X},
year={2015},
number={96},
pages={1-30},
doi={10.29212/mh.2015..96.1}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park, TaeGyun
TI - Korea’s Liberation from Japan in 1945 from the US Perspective
JO - military history
PY - 2015
VL - null
IS - 96
PB - Military History Institute, MND
SP - 1
EP - 30
SN - 1598-317X
AB - Liberation from Japan on August 15, 1945 meant from the viewpoint of Koreans that it would provide pivotal opportunity to establish an independent state. However, US policy makers had different position. Although Korea should become independent as the Cairo Declaration mentioned, the basic and prior goal was to separate the Korean Peninsula from the Japanese Empire and to bother any one specific great power’s exclusive initiative over the Korean Peninsula. The US did not want to revive the condition which had existed in the late 19th and the early 20th century.
Two facts are crucial to understand US policy at that time. First of all, all of US policy documents on Korea was based on the Cairo Declaration until the late, even though changes in the US policy emerged since 1946. At second, in spite of the change in 1946, the goal on Korea which the US had have around 1945 was not given up after 1946. This chracteristics emerged very well in Acheson’s Speech in early 1950.
KW - Korea’s Independence;Cairo Declaration;General Order No.1;SWNCC;Moscow Agreement on Korea in 1945
DO - 10.29212/mh.2015..96.1
ER -
Park, TaeGyun. (2015). Korea’s Liberation from Japan in 1945 from the US Perspective. military history, 96, 1-30.
Park, TaeGyun. 2015, "Korea’s Liberation from Japan in 1945 from the US Perspective", military history, no.96, pp.1-30. Available from: doi:10.29212/mh.2015..96.1
Park, TaeGyun "Korea’s Liberation from Japan in 1945 from the US Perspective" military history 96 pp.1-30 (2015) : 1.
Park, TaeGyun. Korea’s Liberation from Japan in 1945 from the US Perspective. 2015; 96 : 1-30. Available from: doi:10.29212/mh.2015..96.1
Park, TaeGyun. "Korea’s Liberation from Japan in 1945 from the US Perspective" military history no.96(2015) : 1-30.doi: 10.29212/mh.2015..96.1
Park, TaeGyun. Korea’s Liberation from Japan in 1945 from the US Perspective. military history, 96, 1-30. doi: 10.29212/mh.2015..96.1
Park, TaeGyun. Korea’s Liberation from Japan in 1945 from the US Perspective. military history. 2015; 96 1-30. doi: 10.29212/mh.2015..96.1
Park, TaeGyun. Korea’s Liberation from Japan in 1945 from the US Perspective. 2015; 96 : 1-30. Available from: doi:10.29212/mh.2015..96.1
Park, TaeGyun. "Korea’s Liberation from Japan in 1945 from the US Perspective" military history no.96(2015) : 1-30.doi: 10.29212/mh.2015..96.1
