Almost 80 years in the past, a brutal crackdown on Jeju Island in southern Korea claimed tens of hundreds of lives. Within the aftermath of World Conflict II, the Korean peninsula was drawn into the Chilly Conflict and divided in two: a Soviet-backed regime within the North, and a US-supported nationalist authorities within the South. On Jeju, some residents resisted this division, and the South Korean authorities quickly branded the island a communist stronghold.
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