<div>Below is a comment (slightly edited) which I posted on<A href="http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2006/03/supply-drops-for-prisoners-of-war/"> Frog in a Well 15 Mar 2006</A> and may or may not be of interest:</div> <div> </div> <div><A title="" href="http://www.froginawell.net/korea/2006/03/supply-drops-for-prisoners-of-war/#comment-332">March 15th, 2006 at 7:20 am</A> </div> <div> </div> <div>While this is only tangentially related, it may be of some interest: In 1967 when I was<BR>going to Korea as a Fulbright Fellow from Princeton to be attached to the Asiatic Research<BR>Center (}x) at Koryo University, I met Kim Jun-hyop from the Center, first at<BR>Princeton and later in Seoul. In the course of our association he told me how he had been<BR>in the Japanese Army in China and deserted to join the Korean government <EM>in absentia</EM> in<BR>Shanghai. He related an interesting anecdote about the end of the war in the
Pacific:<BR>apparently there was a race on between the State Department, on one hand, and the OSS to gain control in Seoul as the Japanese were forced to withdraw. According to Kim (and my<BR>fading memory), the OSS loaded up its guys, including Kim, onto an airplane and flew them to (I believe) Kimpo to try to set up a new government while State was hustling Syngman Rhee and his cohort off from Hawaii. The OSS timing, apparently, was a bit premature, and the aircraft arrived at Kimpo before the turnover by the Japanese, the plane was not permitted to land. In the interim, the turnover took place, Rhee came into power and, the rest, as they say, was history. I wonder if anyone has corroborating or different information on such a race for control of post-occupation Korea?</div> <div> </div> <div>Regards,</div> <div>Doc Rock</div><BR><BR><BR><DIV id=RTEContent> <DIV id=RTEContent> <DIV id=RTEContent> <DIV id=RTEContent> <DIV id=RTEContent> <DIV
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