The North Korean police were arguably one of the most important organisations in liberated North Korea. It was instrumental in stabilising the North Korean society and eventually became one of the backbones for both the new North Korean regime and its military force. Scholars of different political orientation have attempted to reconstruct its early history leading to a set of views ranging from the “traditionalist” sovietisation concept to the more contemporary “revisionist” reconstruction that portrayed it as the cooperation of North Korean elites with the Soviet authorities in their bid for the control over the politics and the military, in which the Soviets merely played the supporting role. Drawing from the Soviet archival documents, this paper presents a third perspective, arguing that initially, the Soviet military administration in North Korea did not pursue any clear-cut political goals. On the contrary, the Soviet administration initially viewed North Koreans with distrust, making Soviets constantly conduct direct interventions to prevent North Korean radicals from using the police in their political struggle.

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解放后的朝鲜的战争与和平：1945 年苏联军事管理和朝鲜警察部队的建立

朝鲜警察可以说是解放后的朝鲜最重要的组织之一。它有助于稳定朝鲜社会，并最终成为朝鲜新政权及其军事力量的支柱之一。不同政治方向的学者试图重建其早期历史，导致一系列观点，从“传统主义”苏维埃化概念到更现代的“修正主义”重建，将其描绘为朝鲜精英与苏联当局合作争取对政治和军事的控制权，而苏联只是起辅助作用。本文借鉴苏联档案文件，提出了第三种观点，认为最初，苏联在朝鲜的军事当局没有追求任何明确的政治目标。相反，苏联政府最初对朝鲜人不信任，使苏联人不断进行直接干预，以防止朝鲜激进分子在政治斗争中使用警察。