Historical Events on July 22: Korean Mobilization, Kissinger's Korea Proposal, and Conjoined Twins Separation
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On July 22, historical events include Japan's 1943 mobilization of Korean students for WWII, Henry Kissinger's 1976 proposal for a four-party meeting and UN admission for the two Koreas, and the 2003 successful separation of conjoined South Korean infant girls in Singapore.
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The text outlines three distinct historical events occurring on July 22, spanning from Japan's World War II efforts involving Korean students to diplomatic proposals for the Korean Peninsula and a medical breakthrough.
July 22
1943 -- Japanese colonial authorities issue an expanded order for the mobilization of Korean students for Japan's World War II efforts. Hundreds of thousands of Koreans, many of them students, were forced to become soldiers for the Japanese army toward the end of Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula. Korea regained its independence when Japan was defeated in the war in 1945.
1976 -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger proposes a deal aimed at resolving the Korea issue. The proposal called for a four-party meeting among the two Koreas, the United States and China, and simultaneous admission of the two Koreas to the United Nations. With the backing of China, Russia and the U.S., the two Koreas were simultaneously admitted into the world body in 1991.
2003 -- A multinational team of doctors successfully separates two conjoined South Korean infant girls at a Singapore hospital.
