One of Roosevelt’s favourite ideas was a trusteeship system which meant gradual formation of nation states on the territories whose people were not prepared for independence and autonomy under close supervision by a special international body. The article analyses the reasons why Korea was chosen as a testing ground for this idea; as well as why the trusteeship idea turned into a friend-or-foe indicator for the right- and left-wing political movements and an instrument of political bargaining shortly after the liberation of Korea.
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