When Japan signed a treaty with Korea they followed the international-law proceedings, however the treaty turn out as an illegal contract. A provisional government of Korea has succeed Daehan Empire, and continued their legitimacy and national regulations. Therefore, pro-Japan who violate the sovereignty should be judged by the law of Daehan Empire. They were guilty of conspiracy and treason.
After liberation, the Korean peninsula was occupied by US military government and by the international regulation. US military government proclaim that they were the only legal government in Korea.
Under the heated controversy of trusteeship, the left and right wings ideological approach was due to vanish clearing the pro-Japan. Therefore Korea was divided into North and South and United nation could not be established.
The people’s republic was a revolutionary government willing to build an independent country, but it came to the end because of US military government’s announcement of dissolution.
The most influential alternative nation that USA could choose was the provisional government of Korea. However, they consider it might be an interruption to their policy when Korea declared the legal government, therefore United State rejected the provisional government.
The provisional government of Korea initiated the struggle of trusteeship. It provided ideology of the anti- Soviet Union and anti-communist. Also the struggle provided legitimacy to the power of Single South Korea government. Henceforth, anybody could became a patriot just by participating in anti-trusteeship even who betrayed the country and also the pro-Japan. The trusteeship struggle left justification and identity of counterrevolution for the pro-japan as the polarization of politics lies under the surface. The Korea democratic party could not succeed getting a popular support because the history of the era under the Japan’s colonial occupation and political line.
Protestantism of South Korea gave positive support to the US army government policy which is to block the Soviet Union and established an Single South Korean government. The Christianity was hostile to leftist force, especially many North Korean Christians were moved to South Korea resulted in the suppression of Christianity. While in North Korean church showed a rebellious character towards communism, also in South Korean church consider the communist as anti-christ. The minister who came oversee from North, propagate even a war to destroy the communist.