Edited sentence: A Korean Liberation Army was formed in 1941 though it was reliant on the Chinese, was part of Chinese forces and only numbered about 1,000 by the end of the war.However, later, in 1944, the Liberation Army took over the operational control from Republic of China and followed its own independence course.Korea (government-in-exile) : 10 December 1941.The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea formed in 1919 on China following the occupation of the peninsular by the Japanese was not recognized by the major powers