[Lee Kyong-hee] From Pyongyang to Seoul: An odyssey of 47 years

Chaos prevailed in Korea amid the power vacuum that followed liberation in 1945. The division of the peninsula along the 38th parallel by the US and Soviet militaries came as a complete surprise to most Koreans. The December 1945 Moscow Conference of US, Soviet and British foreign ministers delivered another shock: The three powers agreed to place Korea under a four-power trusteeship for up to five years pending the establishment of an independent government. When Kim Son-hyok, then a high schoo

By The Korea Herald