The Rise and Fall of the Korean People's Republic

In October 1948, ROK Army regiments refused to sail to Jeju and attack guerrillas there. Bruce Cummings: This battleship-attemkin moment touched off a new rebellion in the port city of Yasu. He says rebel leaders told followers that the 38th parallel had been done away with. Cummings: The demands of these people could have come straight out of Japanese colonialism.