The Rise and Fall of Jeju

The New York Times declared, quote, it may decide the future of Korea and whether that unhappy nation is to be free and united or divided and enslaved. Suk Young: The theory of the Soviet conspiracy flourished at the height of the scorched earth operation of January to March 1949. Laying out a model not only for a wider war in Korea, but the Cold War itself, rebel violence in Jeju was by the press in America exaggerated, sometimes fabricated; police and US violence was ignored, denied, or euphemized.