Abstract
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With Liberation, the Korean peninsula was full of revolutionary waves. Against the will of Korean
people, however, the USA that occupied South Korea and created the USAMGIK tried to
maintain the status quo and build a bulwark against the communist USSR in South Korea. To
accomplish its policy, the USAMGIK found the rightist paramilitary youth organizations necessary
for illegal missions to smash their rivals by violence that it could not perform by legal method.
The USAMGIK and the Rhee-KDP group supported and encouraged the rightist paramilitary
youth corps to exercise their violence without any restrictions. By this method, the United States
and the Rhee-KDP group finally succeeded in establishing a divided government, the ROK, in
South Korea. There remained two features in South Korea. One was the division and the other
was a reactionary and anticommunistic Cold War country waiting for the Korean War.
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paramilitary politics, USAMGIK, rightist paramilitary youth organizations, Cold War, Korean War
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| About the author(s)
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Kim Bong-jin is Professor of Jeju College of Technology. He has been writing articles on the paramilitary
politics and the rise of Nazism in Weimar German history. He is now interested in the paramilitary
politics under the USAMGIK and the establishment of the ROK in South Korea. He is preparing an article
on the Jejudo Uprising in the context of the paramilitary politics. E-mail: kbj1714@hotmail.com.
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