The Dawn of War in South Korea (1947-1950)

Introduction

Chapter 1 Words Which Had Forked No Lightning: The Breakdown of the American-Soviet


Negotiations and the Seeds of Conflict

Chapter 2


Charging Towards the Eye of the Storm: The February 7 Commotion and the Embers

of the April Third Massacre

Chapter 3


The April Third Massacre: A Tragic and Misguided Quest to Punish the

"Despicable Conduct" of the South Korean Police

Chapter 4


When the Scythe of Time Ran Red and Honor Sat in Hell: The Yo-su and Sun-chon

Rebellion, the Demise of the Southern Left, and the Completion of the

Northern-led Eclipse

Chapter 5


Legally Preparing for a Bloody Pandemonium: The Yo-su and Sun-chon Rebellion, the

Declaration of Martial Law, and the Rise of an Anti-Communist Security State

Chapter 6


The Dog in the Silhouette of a Wolf and a Fresh Dream Undressed of Its Celestial

Light: The Completion of the NKWP-SKWP Merger and the Southern Origins of the

Korean War

Chapter 7


"A Bastardly Pantomime": The Assassination of Kim Koo, the Show Trial of Pak

Hon-yong, and the End of "A More Perfect Communist Revolution"

Epilogue

Kyu-hyun Jo received his Ph.D. in Modern Korean and East Asian History from the University of Chicago in June 2019. His research interests are in Korea-US relations, US-East Asia relations, the Cold War, decolonization, and the Korean War. He is also interested in using social science theories for historical analysis. Dr. Jo is currently a lecturer in Political Science at Yonsei University, where he teaches East Asian International Relations and its connection to Korea. From 2020 to 2021, he was a research associate at the Northeast Asian History Foundation, a nationally endowed research institute in Korea dedicated to studying Korea's international relations in connection with maritime issues, where he studied and researched on Dokdo's history and the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the San Francisco System. He was also a lecturer in world history at George Mason University Korea, where he taught world history from1500 with a focus on trade, disease, and globalization. He has published articles in the Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, Territory, Governance, Politics, Acta Koreana, and the Brown University Journal of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics among others. He is also the author of Japanese Judicial Imperialism and the Origins of the Coercive Illegality of Japan's Annexation of Korea: A Study of Unequal Treaties Between Korea and Japan, 1876-1910 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023).