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"Two political parties had emerged, and the conflict between the two adversary leaders, Park and Rhee, had produced devastating results: the permanent split of the Korean community in Hawaii, the weakening of the independence movement, and the existence of two inimical Korean churches."

But an unexpected turn of events brought chagrin and anguish to Koreans, for communist Russia stepped in and claimed the northern half of their country. They had thought that when Russia entered the war against Japan, there was an agreement that she would defend the northern half of Korea while the United States defended the southern half until Japan was defeated. Another belief was that after a Korean governm

Korea was made almost solely a one-crop country—to raise enough rice to feed the Japanese. Year after year the demands had increased and many Korean farmers found it impossible to satisfy the imperialists in command. Most Koreans, except the wealthiest landowners, ate little or no white rice; they had to buy an inferior type of cheap grain from Manchuria—millet-which was in short supply and which they hated. Whil