He should have curtailed his anti-Japanese campaign and retained all Japanese collaborators except those who had worked for the Japanese police or army. Chiang Kai Sek attacks Mao's capital city of Yenan. My brother is accepted by the Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang - only the best and the most progressive are allowed into this university. My father knows many of the communist leaders - including Kim Il Sung. The US military crushes the last People's Committees in Chejudo and Keojedo.
Many Korean nationalists die in the fighting.
The very same Korean traitors who had sold out our country to Japan are now working for a new master - the American military. His family had a record of anti-Japan activities. One of his uncles was a Tonghak leader, a peasant uprising during 1892-94 against Queen Min's corrupt dynasty and for the expulsion of all Japanese from Korea. Yo became editor of Chung Ang Ilbo, a daily newspaper in Seoul. Prior to the surrender, the Japanese attempted to hand him the rein of Korea and he formed the Korean People's Republic and the various people's committees that existed at the local level all over Korea.