Day 8: ACADECA

Acadeca took up my day today. So today's post is my speech. :(
The North and South Korean conflict has not been a very successful conflict. Let’s face it, it could even be considered unsolvable. But here I am to talk about how the U.S. can help North Korea, not South, solve this crisis. Let’s start at the very beginning shall we?
In contradiction to the Cairo Conference the Allies decided to divide Korea at the Potsdam conference. Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge directly controlled South Korea through the USAMGIK. To establish control he gave power to the key Japanese colonial administrators and their Korean police collaborators. They did not recognize the provisional government set up by the PRK because they were suspected to be communist. In the month of September in 194 Hodge was contacted by a Japanese Lt. Gen that the Soviets were south of the 38th parallel in Kaesong. the same month Korea was administered the US-USSR Commission which was agreed upon at the Moscow Conference. Of course the Koreans were excluded from the talks. The Commission stated that Korea would be an independent nation after a 5 year trusteeship. Revolts sprung up in the south; to contain them, the USAMGIK banned strikes on 8 December 1945 and outlawed the PRK Revolutionary Government and the PRK People's Committees on 12 December 1945. Uprising were becoming more common in what became known as the Autumn uprising.On 1 October 1946, Korean police killed three students in the Daegu Uprising. The USAMGIK had no other choice but to declare martial law.
The USAMGIK decided to forget about the five year trusteeship made in Moscow and tried to rise and anti-communist government On 3 April what began as a demonstration commemorating Korean resistance to Japanese rule ended with the Jeju massacre of as many as 60,000 citizens by South Korean soldiers. On the 10th of May, South Korea had their first general elections that were first opposed by the Soviets then boycotted. They believed the US should honor the agreement.  They elected Synman Rhee on July 20 1948. The elections were marred by terrorism which should have been expected. A total of 600 lives were lost. The Republic of Korea was established in August 15 1948 The Soviets made their occupated area communist and appointed Kim Il-sung. Both Rhee and Il-sung were nationalists so they wanted to unify their country under their rule. With Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong in control of the Korea peninsula, North Korea had the Support of the USSR and the People’s Republic of China. In October 1948, South Korean left-wing soldiers rebelled against the government's harsh clampdown in April on Jeju island in the Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion. U.S. troops withdrew from Korea in 1949, leaving the South Korean army relatively ill-equipped. The Soviet Union left Korea in 1948. On 24 December 1949, South Korean forces killed 86 to 88 people in the Mungyeong massacre and blamed the crime on communist marauding bands. The Korean war never really ended, only a cease fire was called , so technically it is still going on.
I believe that letting North Korea have control of the whole Peninsula would be most beneficial. They have a strong stable government and you don;t here many bad things about them. Sure the US labels certain things they do as “wrong”, But I don’t see what is the problem with them having nuclear weapons. The whole peninsula would be ruled by the North and it really won’t be that much of a difference. We, as in the US, need to make good relations with the North. Honestly, the North would win if war broke out seeing as they are better equipped for war and have the almost infinite supply of foot soldiers otherwise known as China. The reason the US is involved with those affairs is still a mystery. Perhaps it is the sense that the US feels like it is God sent to take care of the world. Korea feels more comfortable with China, seeing as they are A) not far apart and B) similar in more ways than one. So what if there is another socialist country out there. All the US should bother itself with is good relations and trying to find common ground between us and those socialist countries.