During the Japanese occupation of Korea , I understand that a number
of Korean
guerilla groups operated in Korea to defeat the Japanese.
I have the following questions regarding these groups
1. Up until the surrender of Japan who were these groups, what were
their political allegiances and who were their leaders.
2. What parts of the Korean penisula did they liberate and how long
were they liberated at the point of the Japanese surrender?
Kind Regards
Mongolia |
Request for Question Clarification by
livioflores-ga
on
01 Jun 2003 17:35 PDT
I just found several pages about this topic,and I think that they
could satisfy your requirements of a complete answer.
If after see the sites you think the same like me, please let me know
and I will post them as the answer.
"Anti-Japan Guerrillas - Part I":
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit05.htm
"Anti-Japan Guerrillas - Part II":
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit06.htm
"Anti-Japanese Movement in Korea - A Photo Journal", a five chapters
text (with photos) that , in my opinion, are the best aproximation to
the answer:
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/jp-histo.htm
"Korea, 1910–1945" from The Encyclopedia of World History at
Bartleby.com; read this first page and then follow up with the NEXT
links:
http://www.bartleby.com/67/2488.html#s6.8.59
"Korean Nationalism (Japanese Period)":
http://www.hf.uio.no/east/om-east/ansatte/ansatte/Ansettes%20tillegg/Koreas%20samf.%20og%20polit.%206.htm
From the Library of Congress:
South Korea - "KOREA UNDER JAPANESE RULE":
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+kr0021)
North Korea - "THE RISE OF KOREAN NATIONALISM AND COMMUNISM":
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+kp0022)
I will wait for your response.
Regards.
livioflores-ga
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Clarification of Question by
mongolia-ga
on
21 Jun 2003 09:59 PDT
livioflores
I did go through the websites you sent me (incidentially I cannot open the
last two listed)
The web sites you did sent me do go some way in answering my questions
However they also beg more questions.
Having distilled the informatiion from your web sites here is what I am
assuming-
1. Armed resistance to the Japanese started soometime in the 1930's
2. The only successful group was lead by Kim il Sung who was himself
was not always very successful in defeating the Japanese due to
the success of the Japanese secret police.
I would like too ask the following as a point of clarification
- Was Kim's group the only guerilla group to oppose the Japanese
in Korea? If not who were the other groups (and who were their leaders)
- At the time of liberation of Korea from Japan what part of
Korea did Kim Il Sung's group control (if he did have control over
any part of Korea?)
Regards
Mongolia
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Request for Question Clarification by
livioflores-ga
on
24 Jun 2003 01:14 PDT
Hi mongolia!!
Please excuse me for the delay.
I was searching to find info related to this topic with the intention
of answer your new questions:
A) - Was Kim's group the only guerilla group to oppose the Japanese
in Korea? If not who were the other groups (and who were their
leaders)
The answer heere is yes and no, no because Kimīs group it was not the
only one but yes because it was the main group (the only one well
organized and documented). To clarify this you can see the following:
"Many nationalist and communist leaders were jailed in the early 1930s
(they reappeared in 1945). When Japan invaded and then annexed
Manchuria in 193l, however, a strong guerrilla resistance embracing
both Chinese and Koreans emerged (see fig. 2). There were well over
200,000 guerrillas--all loosely connected, and including bandits and
secret societies--fighting the Japanese in the early 1930s; after
murderous but effective counterinsurgency campaigns, the numbers
declined to a few thousand by the mid-1930s. It was from this milieu
that Kim Il Sung (originally named Kim Sng-ju, born in 1912) emerged.
By the mid-1930s, he had become a significant guerrilla leader whom
the Japanese considered one of the most effective and dangerous of
guerrillas. They formed a special counterinsurgent unit to track Kim
down and put Koreans in it as part of their divide-and-rule tactics."
From the Library of Congress: North Korea - "THE RISE OF KOREAN
NATIONALISM AND COMMUNISM": To reach this page visit the following
page and click the link named "THE RISE OF KOREAN NATIONALISM AND
COMMUNISM":
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/kptoc.html
B)- At the time of liberation of Korea from Japan what part of
Korea did Kim Il Sung's group control (if he did have control over
any part of Korea?)
The guerrillas started they fight in Korean territory, but the
Japanese Army rejected them to Manchuria and China.
The following page will give you the information about that:
"The military Campaign against Japan for Independence":
http://www.japanarmy.com/english/e-doklip.htm
And in addition to the pages "Anti-Japan Guerrillas" Parts I and II,
see the following pages from the same site:
"World War II":
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit07.htm
"Japan Defeated":
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit08.htm
"The US and Soviet Occupation: 1945":
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit09.htm
"US Military Government in Korea - 1945":
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit10.htm
"Anti-Japan Movement: 1921 - 1935":
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit03.htm
I know that this is a hard reading but I hope that this satisfy your
requests, it happens please let me know and I will post this as the
answer.
I will wait for your response, remember that the question expires on
30 June 2003.
Best regards.
livioflores-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
livioflores-ga
on
28 Jun 2003 12:12 PDT
Hi mongolia!!
I need to know if I can post an answer, I think that the info provided
answer your question , but I am still waiting for your confirmation
and the question is about to expire.
Regards.
livioflores-ga
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Clarification of Question by
mongolia-ga
on
30 Jun 2003 09:36 PDT
Dear Livioflores
I am OK to close this question. I think you have probably gone 40%
of the
way to answering my question. I suspect though to get better
information for
my question much of the information is not contained in a few
websites and indeed some of the information is not on the internet at
all but contained in key libraries in places like Japan, China, USA ,
UK , Russia and North and South Korea.
Last year I had the opportunity to visit the Guerilla Camps that Kim
Il-Sung and his Guerilla army operated from. As your Websites indicate
these were located in the Northern part of North Korea just south of
Mount Paektu.
The North Korean version of history (or propaganda as some may prefer
to call
it) maintains that Kim il-sung liberated Korea and indeed this is what
most of the North Korean population is told. When I pointed out to my
North Korean tourist guides that perhaps a more relevant reason for
the liberation of Korea was due to the dropping of two nuclear bombs
on Japan followed rapidly by Japanese surrender and Korean liberation
, their reaction was not to dispute the reason for the Japanese
Surrender but also to point out that much of Korea had already been
liberated at the time of the Japanese surrender.
This interesting conversation I had my North Korean tourist guides
prompted this question to Google.
It would be all too easy for me to dismiss everything that I had been
told in North Korea as communist propaganda. However some reports I
have read recently from the South Korean press would go some way in
supporting the North Korean version of history.
If you do have other relevant information on this topic I would
delighted to see it.
Thanks
Mongolia
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