Jeju uprising to Jeju from Busan and deploying police companies, each 1,700 strong, from the southern provinces of the mainland. The guerrillas retreated to their bases in the forests and caves around Hallasan, an extinct volcano and the highest mountain in South Korea. On April 29, the Korean, non-military, governor of Jeju province abandoned his post, defected, and joined the guerrillas. This caused many police officers, disillusioned by the atrocities they were ordered to commit against their own, to do the same. In response, U.S. military provincial governor William F. Dean ordered a purge of SKLP sympathizers from the ranks of the
East Molokai Volcano shield volcano of East Molokai and is considered to represent the last volcanic phase of East Molokai. East Molokai was one of the seven principal volcanoes along with West Molokai, Lānai, West Maui, East Maui, Penguin Bank and Kahoolawe that formerly constituted the island of Maui Nui. The highest point is the peak called Kamakou on the southern rim at . The Pēpēōpae bog is just below the rim. The northern flank of the volcano has been truncated by enormous cliffs rising from the sea. The sea cliffs were formed when the northern third of the East Molokai Volcano suddenly