es forced him to leave Manchuria for the Soviet Union. He remained there, and came back to Korea in 1945. On August 15, 1945, he achieved national liberation from Japanese colonial rule. Having received direct Soviet encouragement, he strove to unify Korea into a communism. After the creation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948, not only did he became the head of the Korean Workers' Party (unified political party of the working masses), but also became the Premier of the communist state (the Head of State). He made the fateful decision to launch a major military campaign to unify Korea u
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