What happens
The Pacific Story presents a dramatized account of Korea's long struggle for independence and its unrecognized provisional government. The program follows Korea's 1882 treaty with the United States, its takeover by Japan in 1910, and the 1919 independence declaration. It describes repeated appeals to Western powers and the provisional government's efforts to win recognition, including at the Paris and Washington conferences. The broadcast also covers Korea's economic resources and the strategic importance of its location, and it closes by reading the June 1945 official statement of the United States Department of State explaining why the provisional government had not been recognized.
Korea, the Pacific region and the United States, from 1882 to 1945
Characters: Korean provisional government representatives, American businessmen bound for Korea, Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew
Listen for: The reading of the June 8, 1945 State Department statement near the end, which explains the United States' position on the Korean provisional government.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.