Operation Blacklist Forty
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Operation Blacklist Forty was the codename for the United States occupation of Korea between 1945 and 1948. Following the end of World War II, US forces landed within the present-day South Korea to ac
The flag lowering ceremony in Seoul during the official Japanese surrender of Korea on September 9, 1945 at te Government-General of Chōsen Building
USS San Francisco off the Korean coast on September 28, 1945
Dean Rusk
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David Dean Rusk was the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving secretary of state after Cordell Hull from
Operation Blacklist Forty
…latter's entry in the war against Japan. The 38th parallel north was chosen to separate the two occupation zones on August 10 by two American officers, Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel, working on short notice and with little information on Korea. Their superiors endorsed the partition line and the proposal was…
Rusk c. 1960s
Dean Rusk with President Johnson and Robert McNamara, February 9, 1968
L–R: Llewellyn Thompson, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Rusk in 1967 during the Glassboro Summit Conference