1946-03-20 - 1946-05-05

First U.S.-Soviet Joint Commission

Deoksugung, Seoul1946-03-20 · talks on a unified provisional government stall over political participation

Other events in this phase

Korean State Formation50
  1. Korean Constabulary expands
  2. North Korean Provisional People’s Committee formed
  3. North Korean land reform
  4. First U.S.-Soviet Joint CommissionCurrent record
  5. First U.S.-Soviet Joint Commission breaks down
  6. Rhee’s Jeongeup speech
  7. North Korean labor law promulgated
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Political transition context

Post-liberation Korean politics was not only celebration of independence; it combined the collapse of Japanese rule, U.S.-Soviet occupation lines, and competing claims by provisional, committee, party, and military-government actors.

The records should be read as a chain linking returning leaders, occupation forces, trusteeship debates, Joint Commission diplomacy, and the failure of coalition politics to state formation and division.

Media

First U.S.-Soviet Joint Commission, 1946Visual recordFirst U.S.-Soviet Joint Commission, 1946The first U.S.-Soviet Joint Commission in 1946, central to the deadlock over a Korean provisional government.First U.S.-Soviet Joint CommissionVisual recordFirst U.S.-Soviet Joint CommissionOpening meeting of the First U.S.-Soviet Joint Commission at Deoksugung, Seoul, on March 20, 1946.demonstration supporting the Joint CommissionVisual recorddemonstration supporting the Joint CommissionDemonstration supporting the Joint Commission, connecting diplomacy with Korean domestic political mobilization.

Source Trail

Diplomatic Primary SourceFRUS · Korea, 1945-1950Open sourceOfficial RecordNational Archives of Korea · post-liberation recordsOpen sourceOfficial RecordNational Institute of Korean History · Korean History DatabaseOpen source