Seeds Will Grow

Cross-posting Comra’s Instagram post from April 3, 2026.

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Before the Korean War even began, the United States was already waging one. Not against a foreign army – but against the Korean people themselves.

On this day in 1948, the jeju uprising erupted.

In 1948, as Washington moved to divide Korea and install a compliant government in the south, the people of Jeju Island refused. They boycotted US-backed elections, burned polling stations, and declared their opposition to the partition of their country. The response was annihilation.

What followed was seven years of mass killings, village burnings, and systematic terror — a US-led counterinsurgency campaign that wiped out over 20% of Jeju’s population and razed 70% of its villages to the ground.

The massacre was buried for decades. US media framed the uprising as a Soviet plot. And while South Korea eventually opened an investigation in 2000, Washington has never acknowledged its role – not once. Read on.

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Join the Korea Peace Study Group on the evening of April 10th, 8pm Eastern USA time to discuss the 4.3 Massacre.