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1945-1933 The Korean War 1945-1953 Hugh Deane & Periodicals, Inc. San Francisco 4“oIqGOw%e Days Copyright © 1999 by Hugh Deane All rights reserved under International and Pan American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by China Books and Periodicals, Inc. ISBN 0-8351-2644-7 Library of Congress Number 99-62801 Printed in Canada First Edition Book and cover design by Linda Revel China Books & Periodicals, Inc. 2929 Twenty-fourth Street San Francisco, CA 94110) 1 did not think I was either a radical or a dreamer. I was a reporter who had found with shame and anguish that ynder our flag and often with our active encouragement there had come into being a police state so savage in its suppression of man’s elemental liberties that it was diffi- ult to find a parallel for it. —MArK GAYN History That Shapes the Present 1 The Tonghak Rebellion 6 Japan’s Aggression 10 U.S. Role 12 The True Start of the Korean War: 15 By Way of Introduction 17 Memories of the Beginning 21 Press Coverage 23 Leadership Racism 29 The Repression Was American-Made 31 The Autumn Harvest Uprisings 34 Korean National Youth and Yi Pom-sok 37 Assault on the Unions 40 The Moscow Decision 45 The Death of Yo Un-hyong 46 The Repression Systematized: 1947 51 The Uprising on Cheju 54 Southern Resistance: Guerrillas 59 The UN Umbrella Over the Separate Elections 63 Syngman Rhee’s Election at the East Gate 67 The 1950 War in the Making: 7 Northern Beginnings 73 Strategic Change Inclines the U.S. to War 77 82 Kim Il Sung, Stalin, and Mao The Onjin Beginning, 1949 and 1950 83 Armies at War: The American Invasion U.S. Marines Capture Seoul 83 Operation Rat Killer 9] Rollback: MacArthur's Drive to ¢},, y 97 The Chinese Cross the Yalu alu = China and the Undoing of MacArty,,, és The Battle for Frozen Chosin lis The Failed Chinese Offensives 12> The Bloody Years of Stalemate 132 The Air War 135 Biological Warfare 144 Prisoners in the Chinese Camps 15] Korean and Chinese Prisoners 160 The Red Cross on the February 18 Killings a06 The Prisoner Guinea Pigs i Armistice and Aftermath ae Appendices 195 On Villages and the People’s Republic: The Frog Gets a New Head 197 Declaration of the Korean People’s Republic 200 Statement by Kim Ku and Kim Kyu-sik on 1948 Trip to Pyongyang 202 Mao’s Telegram to Stalin October 2, 1950 oe North Korea Diary 1997 Chronology 215 Bibliography Notes = 243 Index é die s < EY Reale re ' + a ‘ ar aa oe eea e AD 1 Caled j tele Also by Hugh Deane: Good Deeds and Gunboats: Two Centuries of American-Chinese Encounters China Books & Periodicals, San Francisco 1990