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The War Against Communists of the South
From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires
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Chapter six, The War Against Communists of the South focuses on the brutal measures the US occupation forces and their Korean subalterns look to suppress communism and communist sympathies in the southern occupational zone. At the end of 1945, Hodge and his advisers created a four-point plan to destroy the movement for independence in southern Korea. The chapter discusses how the South used Korean collaborators from the Japanese army to crush Korean resistance, as well as the Korean National Police, the instrument of violence the Japanese had used to suppress opposition to Japanese rule, would be rebuilt. Third, the occupation government’s alliance with right-wing, anti-egalitarian, pro-collaborationist forces would be strengthened. And fourth, opponents of the new regime would be rounded up and jailed. By 1948, Hodge’s war on the independence movement in the south had driven the movement’s supporters into graves, into jail, underground, or to the north.
