(2) People’s Republic of Korea (조선인민공화국)
(a) Early in August 1945 the PRK was organized by a group of pro-Japanese collaborating Koreans under the leadership of Mr. Woon Hyung Yuh. The name of this organization has been changed several times and at present is the People's Republic of Korea. When first organized this group was told by the Governor-General of Korea that the Americans would not occupy Korea at the end of the war but that the occupation would be completely Russian. The Governor-General gave considerable financial support (alleged to be approximately twenty million yen) and supplied authority to hold public meetings, various office and transportation facilities and supplied Japanese aircraft from which to drop propaganda leaflets over all the cities and towns of this country. Immediately following the distribution of the U.S. armed forces information leaflets by American aircraft, the leaders of the Korean Reconstruction Commission changed their propaganda, admitting that American forces would occupy Korea. The pro-Communist Koreans who at first strongly supported this organization, therefore, became less openly active. The leader of this organization, Mr. W. H. Yuh, is well-known to the Korean people as pro-Japanese collaborator and politician and has been for many years.