"Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed. The aforesaid three great powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are determined that in due course Korea shall become free and independent..."
-Excerpt from the Cairo Declaration, the result of a meeting between the US (Roosevelt), UK (Churchill), and China (Chang Kai-Shek).
"The shorter the period the better."
-Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union Leader, when Franklin Roosevelt surmised that a trusteeship, of Korea could last 20-30 years before it could become self-governable.
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Newsreel of Japanese surrender above the USS Missouri [Internet Archives, 1945] 25 seconds
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