Hoe did Korea become a divided state?

Answer 1

Japan was holding Korea as its colony and squashing Korean culture. In 1910 Japan removed the chosen Korean dynasty and turned it into a Japanese colony. During the next thirty-five years Korea was changed dramatically as the Japanese tried to suppress Korean culture. They tried to make Korea more like Japan by destroying temples and places, burning Korean history books, keeping Korean children out of school and banning the use of Korean language. When Japan was part of forces the force decided to free all of Japans colonies. During the last weeks of WWII, Russia sent troops to Northern Korea to free Korea. However after the war ended and Japan gave Korea, the Russians did not leave. This led to Korea becoming divided. One half was commanded by Russia, the other side was left to fend for itself.

Russia was a very strong and powerful communist country. During the last few weeks of the wwII, Russia sent in troops to Northern Korea. When WWII finished Russia did not leave. Because Russia was very powerful and a communist country, the U.S.A. felt very threatened as they did not want the spread of communism. To prevent this they sent their own troops to Southern Korea. This divided the country. It was supposed to be temporary. The U.S., Russia, the U.N. and Great Britain spent to years discussing Koreas future and in 1947 the U.N. supervised elections that were to take place but the USSR didn't allow the U.N. into Korea. In Southern Korea the elections took place and Sygman Rhee was elected. Later that year North Korea proclaimed independence and Kim II Sung became president. Korea was officially divided - communist North Korea and democratic South Korea.