May 02, 2024
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Post-war U.S. government fostered ‘extremism’ in both Koreas — scholar

Tensions roiled under American occupation eventually ‘erupted’ in Korean War

HONOLULU— The Korean War and national division are partially due to Americans’ insistence on a post-World War II trusteeship they did not carefully undertake, a scholar said Tuesday.

Mark Caprio, professor of intercultural communication at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, discussed his research on views toward the Korean Peninsula in the years leading up to its liberation from Japanese control at the end of World War II.

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