Abstract

Our Korean Allies

After thirty-eight years of Japanese occupation, millions of Koreans are still ready to take up arms against their oppressors. Whether they will be able to do so depends in large part on whether the United States gives them recognition, encouragement, and supplies. At least 35,000 Koreans are already under arms in China. Several thousand of them are organized in the Korean Independent Army, which is fighting with the forces of Free China. This group includes the former Korean Volunteer Corps, which was organized by left-wing Koreans in 1938. The Korean Peninsula is of immense strategic value to the Japanese, since a substantial part of Japan's war industry is located near Korea's rich mineral resources and great hydroelectric power installations.