How The US Traded a Divided Japan For a Divided Korea

The Koreans got shafted by the Japanese one last time

FDR and Stalin (Cropped / Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882–1962)

In 1943, President Roosevelt made a deal with the devil. It was about halfway through 1943 that the war effort for the Allies started to look up. By the end of the year, it was time to start planning on how to wrap up the war. At the Tehran Conference, FDR met with Churchill and…