the Communist north was much more heavily armed than the Democratic south, and would have easily trampled over them, thereby spreading Communism to another part of the world. American surrender in this fashion was unthinkable. They submitted this problem to the United Nations General Assembly” (Laite 1).
The first actions taken by the U.N. was to form a commission which would monitor free and secret elections in Korea. The commission was also aimed at getting the occupied forces to withdraw from the country. Since the Soviets would not allow the U.N. into North Korea the elections had to be held in parts of the country to which they had access. Elections occurred in 1948 and the U.N. General Assembly recognized the Korean government and established another body to oversee the withdrawal of occupied forces. Not to be left out, the Soviet Union established the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in North Korea under the communist guerilla Kim Il Sung. Sung’s guerilla tactics would late
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