Initially, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea and the General Command of the Liberation Army expected the defeat of the Japanese colonial rule to be at the end of 1946. It was based on the fact that the Chinese government, which was unaware of the U.S. possession of atomic bombs, expected the Japanese to surrender at the end of 1946. Therefore, the military strategy of the Liberation Army General Command, established in the spring of 1945, was to drive the Japanese imperialist invading forces out of our homeland through the anti-Japanese war that exerts our power. As mentioned earlier, the strategy was to infiltrate special forces trained with the U.S. military into Korea, vacuum the main forces into Korea via the East, and deploy one-zone troops with the U.S. command in the Pacific to engage in an all-out war with the Japanese. Thus, the Liberation Army training personnel to be dispatched to Korea were carried out through joint ventures with the US Army OSS Special Forces. As mentioned earlier, the OSS unit training was conducted simultaneously in the 2nd and 3rd zones, and the dispatch to Korea was scheduled to infiltrate the 2nd zone first and then the 3rd zone. And it was planned to continue training the number of people by jockeys and continue to infiltrate Korea. Thus, on August 7, 1945, General Ji Cheong-cheon, the commander-in-chief of the Liberation Army, went to West Bank, the training site with President Kim Gu of the Provisional Government, and held a meeting with Major Donavan, Holywell, and Major Sagent, the head of OSS training for OSS training. This plan was scheduled to be carried out in the third zone following the second zone. However, Shu Su-ju, president of the government of Seom Seo-seong, who was a leading Chinese figure favorable to the provisional government, invited temporary government officials such as Kim Gu, Lee Si-young, Ji Cheong-cheon, and Um Hang-seop to comfort him. He offered a drink to Kim Gu at this place and said. "Congratulations." You guys are working hard on military training and planning operations to liberate your country, but now you can relieve such trouble." "What do you mean?" "Japan declared surrender. Your country has achieved independence." "Are you saying that Japan has already surrendered?" Kim Gu and other temporary government leaders looked at the reduction stocks with an expression that they couldn't believe it. "The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Millions of Japanese people died in groups. Considering the atrocities they committed against Korea, China, and all Asia, that's how much they were paid for their weak crimes." Zhu Zhu laughed loudly in a cheerful mood, but the expressions of temporary government officials and Liberation Army commanders were not very bright. This was because Japan's surrender was not the result of the anti-Japanese war caused by the force of the Korean independence movement camp, so it was concerned that Korea would be weak in its international position in the future. Ji Cheong-cheon argued earlier that the provisional government should obtain international approval for the post-liberation founding process, and judged that the Liberation Army could exercise its right as an independent country internationally even after its liberation. However, not by our armed forces, but by the dropping of the U.S. atomic bomb dramatically led to Japan's surrender. In this situation, on August 10, Jicheongcheon held an emergency meeting with Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government, and Lee Bum-seok, the second chief of the Liberation Army, to push for the dispatch of the Liberation Army to Korea regardless of Japan's declaration of surrender. Lee Bum-seok volunteered for the domestic advance team. After returning to Junggyeong, Kim Gu and Ji Cheong-cheon went through an official agreement of the provisional government, and on the 13th, Lee Bum-seok was appointed as the general commander of Jeongjin-gun in Korea. In addition, after finding out that the U.S. military headquarters in Jeonbu, China, planned to dispatch a delegation from West Bank to Seoul, they tried to send personnel on board. On August 16, the U.S. military was asked to form a delegation with Colonel Bird in charge for the purpose of visiting prisoners' camps in Korea, and a total of 22 people, including 18 U.S. soldiers, Lee Bum-seok and three other liberation forces, were dispatched to Korea. However, these prayers also returned without achieving the desired results due to the stubborn rejection of the Japanese troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula. However, a big problem was raised when the provisional government and the Liberation Army entered Korea. At the Yalta meeting, the U.S. military, which divided the 3.8th parallel of the Korean Peninsula with the Soviet Union and landed in the south, did not recognize the temporary government and urged temporary government factors to return home as individuals, not as state council members. This position of the United States was prominent even before liberation, and the United States was also opposed to the international approval of the temporary government. Thus, the United States maintained an attitude of not being able to make any decisions until the end of the war, and further opposed China's attempt to formally approve the temporary government. In the end, China, which tried to approve the temporary government more than any other country, failed to officially approve it. However, despite the end of the war, the U.S. authorities did not allow the temporary government to return home without changing its position. However, General Ji Cheong-cheon began to carry out a project to expand the Liberation Army with the determination to officially return the Liberation Army after obtaining international approval. Jicheongcheon Stream revealed early that the mission of the Liberation Army was to become a period for the liberation of the homeland and the construction of an independent homeland through the Battle against Japan. However, since the Japanese colonial rule was defeated much earlier than expected, the Liberation Army argued that it is time to achieve true national independence by crossing the Yalu River and Tuman River and entering Korea through expansion. He thought that in order to ensure that there was no tragedy of losing sovereignty, he would have to strengthen the defense of an independent homeland, and that the mission was to the Liberation Army, so that the troops of the Liberation Army in China should be strengthened to 100,000 troops. Although the temporary government, which gave the characteristics of the Liberation Army as the ROK Armed Forces, had no choice but to return home without being recognized as an official government, the expansion of the Liberation Army was inevitable. This is because the expansion of the Liberation Army and the establishment of a strong Armed Forces are often the key to independence. Ji Cheong-cheon and other temporary government officials and Liberation Army commanders received Korean troops forcibly conscripted from the Japanese military, expanded the Liberation Army, and negotiated with the Chinese authorities to obtain consent to the expansion policy. As the commander-in-chief of the Liberation Army, Ji Cheong-cheon dispatched military correspondents from each area of the Liberation Army to the Japanese occupied area, and ordered the Japanese military to establish a sleeping area in major cities. The plan was to expand the number of Korean soldiers forcibly conscripted to the Japanese military to a total of 10 by expanding seven sleeping areas in addition to the three established areas, and organize each area into a complete division organization.And the 100,000 troops of the fully organized Liberation Army entered the country in the capacity of the Armed Forces. Thus, during the period of the Liberation Army dispatched to various places, the expansion project was successfully underway in Shanghai, Namgyeong, and Hangju. Meanwhile, Oh Kwang-seon, who was caught by the Japanese military while carrying out underground crafting activities in Manchuria, arrived in Shanghai by U.S. military aircraft. Jicheongcheon appointed Ogwangseon as the head of the domestic zone and ordered the formation of the zone. Through this expansion work, seven sleeping areas, including domestic areas, were organized. When the U.S. did not officially approve the temporary government, it was argued that it was the general resignation of the State Council member at the extraordinary government meeting. Due to opposition from the U.S. authorities, temporary government factors were forced to return home as individuals. Thus, in November 1945, he returned home on a plane sent by Lieutenant General John Rhed Hodge, the commander of the U.S. military stationed in Korea. After the temporary government factors returned to Korea, Jicheongcheon Stream accelerated the expansion of the Liberation Army. As a whole, 90,000 liberation forces were organized, and the task of constructing the Armed Forces through the originally targeted 100,000 troops was achieved. Thus, in February 1946, Ji Cheong-cheon responded to the expansion and began negotiating the entry of the Liberation Army with the U.S. military authorities and China during the week. Before returning to Korea as an individual, the temporary government officials appointed Ji Cheong-cheon as the head of the military diplomacy team to negotiate the issue of the Liberation Army's return to Korea. However, as mentioned earlier, the U.S. position was not to recognize the reality of armed groups on the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, in Korea, the U.S. government office ordered the dissolution of private military organizations under Military Government Decree No. 28. In the end, the domestic area of Liberation Army had no choice but to change its character as an official military organization and switch to the Korean Liberation Youth Association, a demilitarized organization. Therefore, the U.S. military authorities opposed the entry of the Liberation Army, which was expanded from China, as a South Korean soldier, and forced entry as an individual. Meanwhile, in China, the collapse of the National Cooperation broke out, and a civil war between the Chinese People's Party and the Communist Party broke out, putting Koreans in danger of living in China. In this situation, the Chinese authorities arranged for Koreans to return home as soon as possible. Thus, on May 16, 1946, Jicheongcheon announced the Declaration of Restoration of Liberation. The content was that the Liberation Army's mission in China was completed primarily due to Japan's surrender, so it was later restored to contribute to the construction of a new country by entering the liberated country. With the announcement of the restoration, Jicheongcheon held a newspaper press conference in Namkyung and said that although the Liberation Army returned to Korea as an individual, it would work in the military as a spirit and soldier of the Liberation Army even after returning home.
In this situation, the U.S. Military Government Office was building a guard under the jurisdiction of the U.S. military government, and it tried to appoint a person from the Liberation Army in the appointment of the head of the control department. This was because social public opinion that the Armed Forces should be organized with the Liberation Army as the parent was soaring. Thus, in May 1946, Lieutenant General Haji dispatched Colonel Bernard and Major Wems, the heads of the US Defense Command, as envoys. Colonel Bernard met with Ji Cheong-cheon, Lee Bum-seok, and Kim Hak-gyu one after another and recommended that they form a Korean army in collaboration with the United States. However, the guards installed while forcing the individual qualifications of the Liberation Army did not have the characteristics of the Korean Armed Forces. Therefore, General Ji Cheong-cheon, who was angry at the attitude of the U.S. military government that did not recognize the Provisional Government and the Liberation Army, rejected the U.S. military's joint offer. In addition, General Ji Cheong-cheon, along with Park Chan-ik and Min Seok-rin, pointed out the illegal stones of trusteeship and insisted on the right to independence as representatives of the Korean coinage delegation. On December 17, 1945, when the Moscow Trinity Conference was held and a five-year trust rule over Korea was decided, a massive anti-trust protest took place in Korea. In parallel with this, the Chinese coin delegation argued that since Korea is not a defeated country, there is no reason to receive trusteeship, and that both US and Soviet troops should withdraw immediately from Korea. In the midst of this, the U.S. Military Government realized that it could no longer negotiate with Ji Cheong-cheon, and negotiated Yoo Dong-yeol, who had arrived in Korea first, as the head of the peer division, and launched a guard organization. Yoo Dong-yeol discussed this with temporary government factors and then participated in the formation of a security guard. Ji Cheong-cheon was determined not to return from China as much as possible, recognizing that China and Korea's fate were inseparable under the situation of a rapid increase in East Asia, where a number of Koreans still remain in Manchuria. However, since the construction work in my country was also not important, I hoped that the second zone would be returned to Korea following the return of the Liberation Army, which began in February, and mixed with the domestic zone to lay the foundation for the construction. In addition, the plan was to continuously organize Korean residents in Manchuria into the military and enter Korea via Manchuria if the situation permits. This is due to the prospect that if democratic forces through joint ventures between Korea and China are strengthened in Manchuria at the time, it could serve as a check against communist forces in Korea. Accordingly, Kim Hak-gyu, who was the third chief, went to Manchuria to meet the request of Park Chan-ik, the head of the Zhu Hua delegation, to form an army. Thus, the plan of domestic landing operations, which were the military strategies of the late Liberation Army, and domestic entry operations through Manchuria, although not under the official name of the Liberation Army, continued in its basic framework, and its goal was reset by establishing the foundation of the Japanese army. Regarding the expansion of the Liberation Army and the attitude of the United States, it can be said that the United States at this time made a major policy error. In other words, the United States, along with the Soviet Union, forced the 90,000 liberation forces to enter the Korean Peninsula and set up weak guards under the leadership of U.S. forces, weakening the foundation of the Korean Peninsula, the Korean War, and other divided countries. In other words, if 100,000 liberation forces had been able to enter Korea, such military power would have been the basis of a solid founding, easing the confrontation between democracy and communist forces on the Korean Peninsula or preventing the Korean War.
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