After student mobilizations overthrew U.S. backed dictator Syngman Rhee in 1960, the new government set itself on the path to reunification with the North. A joint representative body was purposed, and Kim il-sung himself was excited about the prospect. Four days before the conference that would have discussed this alliance occurred, a second U.S. backed coup overthrew the democratically elected leadership in the South, and installed another dictatorship fronted by Park Chung-hee and former members of the Japanese military. The free press was destroyed, thousands political leaders were arrested, and investigations into U.S. war crimes were closed.

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