Доклады Международного конгресса ИИСАА. Т. 1

III. Far East, South and South-East Asia / Дальний Восток, Южная и Юго-Восточная Азия Доклады Международного конгресса по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки. Т. 1. 2020 341 Other matters contributed to claims that the confrontations faced by the two delegations had leaked beyond the confines of the meeting rooms and spilled onto the streets of P’yǒngyang and Seoul, and across the peninsula. Both sides accused the other of harassing members of opposition parties in their respective zones. On one occasion Shtikov complained that cars carrying members of the Soviet Delegation were stoned by anti-trusteeship people. 1 Later, in his closing statement issued just before the Joint Commission finally broke up Shtikov complained that “democratic parties and social organizations upholding the Moscow Decision on Korea, their leaders, members and even sympathizers of these organizations, are subject to cruel persecution.” 2 General Brown defended the United States military administration’s actions as legal responses to illegal actions: The South Korean Labor Party and other parties and organizations, members of the Democratic People’s Front, of South Korea, have since their inception been disloyal to the government of South Korea. They have used illegal means, including subversive action, to embarrass and destroy the government. They have been aided and abetted in such action by the Democratic People’s Front of North Korea. Agents from without South Korea have been sent into South Korea to organize disorders against the government and to lead parties and organizations, members of the Democratic People’s Front, in such disorders. It was the Soviet leadership’s responsibility to “advise these parties to cooperate with the existing government under which they are living.” 3 TheAmerican Delegation also claimed that the Soviets harassed and imprisoned northern conservatives, the most notable case being the “protective custody” under which Soviet leadership confined Cho Mansik, the leader of both the northern branch of the Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independence and the Chosǒn Democratic Party, because of his objections to trusteeship. The American Delegation also accused the Soviet occupation of oppressing religious groups, of denying north Koreans of basic human rights, and Soviet soldiers of raping Korean women. 4 1 Soviet Delegation Vehicles, Threatening and/or Stoning of (July 25, 1947) // NARA. The report questioned whether the stone throwers directly targeted the Soviet Delegation. 2 Statement of the Soviet Delegation in the Meetings of the Joint Commission (Septem- ber 26, 1947) // NARA. 3 Statement of the Chief Commissioners ofAmerican Delegation 54 th meeting (August 20) (August 23, 1947) // NARA. 4 For religious persecution see Leonard M. Bertsch. Report to General Brown, Protestant Leaders in North Korea (July 14, 1947) // NARA.