Seung-chan Boo, YINKS Researcher
Reduction of USFK and the Direction of the ROK-US Alliance Transformation
Translated by NKR Intern Se-Young Hwang On July 14th, 1950, as the situation turned unfavorable during the Korean War, then-president Syngman Rhee sent a letter to General MacArthur. The letter requested the UN commander ‘to exercise the command authority of ROK armed forces so long as the current hostility continues.’ This one letter became an instrument that legitimized the stationing of United States Forces Korea (USFK) in South Korea along with the transfer of command aut
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