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You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service and this

week we're delving back into our archive to bring you stories from the Korean

Peninsula. Today Catherine Davis takes us back to August 1945 when Korea was first divided between

north and south, following the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II.

This program was first podcast in 2015.

It's mid-day,

it's midday on August theth, 1945, and in a radio broadcast Emperor Hirohito of Japan has

just announced the surrender of his country. I was just outside this has just

outside the surrender of his country. I was just outside the Sun Shil University

compound when my classmates father passed by and then he said in Japanese

Japan lost. So I said said what do you mean well he said

Japan lost and then he just went away.

Shininsup was 15 years old at the time and living in the Korean city of Pyongyang.

We knew that Japan was losing the war because there was the stories in the newspaper as

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