ABSTRACT
The breakdown of American-Soviet negotiations in May 1946, the regime in North Korea was headed by the People’s Interim Committee which was implemented by a graded series of People’s Committees at each of the lower levels of government. The political structure organized by the Soviets in North Korea has been aptly analyzed as a three-cornered system: first, the People’s Committees, second, the political parties, and third, the people’s militia. The Soviets made a determined effort to see to it that the rank and file of the Korean administration as well as the mass of the people believed that they were responsible for their own government. Most observers agreed that the Soviet system quite readily adapted itself to the Korean scene, or at least that it was much more easily adopted by the Koreans than was the Western democratic system sponsored by the American command.
