The Words of the Kim Family Before 2008
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The Words of the Kim Family Before 2008 |
Korean
Army near 38th Parallel
On August 8th, 1945, when World War II was about to end, taking advantage of the golden chance for attaining long cherished de ire, insurance of ice-free ports, the Soviet Army declared war on Japan, and marching from Kyungheung and Woonggi of North Korea occupied Najin and Chungjin (both ice-free ports). Four days after, and despite the end of World War II on August 15th, due to the unconditional surrender of Japan, the march lasted until the entire length of North Korea was swept by the Russian Army at the end of August.
It was due to the division agreement provided in General Order number one, SCAP (The Supreme Commander of Allied Power) Hqs. that the occupation of the Russian Army was restricted to the northern side of the 38th Parallel, and had there not been an agreement, the Soviet Army would have occupied the entire Korean Peninsula. In fact, part of the army tried to go down to South Korea, occupying Kaesung (South of the 38th line) once.
It was August 10th, 1945, only two days after Russia participated in the war, that Japan made a first proposal of surrender to the allied powers.
Accordingly, on August 14th, the Joint Staff Conference of the Allied Powers re-examined the Genera Order and, approved by the US President on August 15th, the order was transmitted by radio to General McArthur in Manila, and General Dynn, US envoy in Moscow, and handed also to Stalin on the same day.
Paragraph 1 of the order prescribed that the Japanese army on the northern side of the 38th Parallel was to surrender to the Soviet Army Commander, whereas the Japanese in the South, to the US Army Commander.
The fore-mentioned order was temporary action made only for the legal performance of Japanese surrender, but nobody realized the action would result in unprecedented tragedy for Korea.
Article one of the decision, made in the Moscow conference of three foreign ministers on Korean problems, (the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union) in December 1945, Prescribed as follows:
"For the formation of conditions required for the national development, based on democratic principles as a sovereign state, for the earliest possible liquidation of the miserable outcome of Japanese domination and for the development of industry, transportation, agriculture and national culture of Korean people, a Korean provisional democratic government will be established."
Even though the future of Korea was seemingly promised to be democratic, a five year trusteeship was sealed.
Korean people strongly repelled this decision of trusteeship, and in the beginning Korean communists sided with the movement, but they turned their coat unnoticed. From this time there might have been established an unconciliatory 38th Parallel in the hearts of Korean people.
Unification of South and North Korea in democracy, the long cherished desire of the people, has never been attained owing to the intrigue of the Soviet communists.
On February 8th, 1946, not so long after the Moscow conference, the Soviet Union established a solo North Korean communist regime, named the North Korean Council of People's Commission, but in consideration of external influence, they frequently used the term 'Democracy'.
The formal title of the North Korean Communist Regime named the Korean Democratic People's Republic' may well be comical. However, 'Democracy' used in North Korea is, as a matter of course, far beyond 'of, by and for the people' and it really means 'of by and for Communism'.
Now let me refer to its true state.
On August 17th, 1945, there was formed a Pyungnam (Pyungan Nam do Province) branch, (Preparatory National Founding Committee) centering around Mr. Man Shik Cho, the then prominent racial leader, who had not yielded to the Japanese Imperialists, as follows;
Chairman: Man Shik Cho
Vice Chairman: Joon Hyuk Hyun, Yoon Sun Oh
General Affairs Director: Joo Yun Lee
Public Peace Director; Neung Jin Choi
Industrial Director: Jong Hyun Lee
Financial Director: Seung Hwan Park
Propagation Director: Jae Duck Hahn
Educational Director: Ki Joo Hong
Local Director; Yoon Yung Lee
Liaison Director: Ki Soo Chung
Committee-at-large: Byung Yun Kim, Jin Sul No, Keun Jo Hahn, Ik Chun Kim, Hyun Sook Park, Byun Su Kim, Dong Won Kim, Chang Kyu Chi, Kwang Jin Kim,
The formation was made in unison, with the appeal of Vice Chairman Jae Hong An, of the Preparatory National Founding Committee, and inaugurated in Seoul, in August 15th, 1945. 145 branches of the committee were formed throughout Korea until August 26th, but there was neither any direct liaison nor unified basic policy between the central headquarters and local branches, and the organizations were to transfer their rights and duties unconditionally to the central government to be established.
However, due to the various hindrances from the Soviet Army and Korean communists, including Shi Woo Chang and Yong Bum Kim, it was next to impossible for the Pyung-Nam Preparatory National Founding Committee to carry on as planned.
On August 25th, a sign saying 'The Soviet Army Headquarters in North Korea' was hung out whose commander was General Chischakov, 25th Soviet Army Commander, and its manpower was estimated 200,000 to 300,000.
There took place everywhere indescribable savageries of Soviet soldiers, such as homicide, violence, robbery, adultery, Wicking eating houses (eating without paying) etc.
The sexual savagery of Soviet soldiers was so insane that it was impossible, without making up as a man, for a woman to go out, while some of the Korean men fell prey to the lust of the Soviet soldier women, and were finally killed as disabled men. I'm one of the eyewitnesses.
Chugwidae, organized as avant-garde of the North Korean Communists, sided with plunders of Soviet Army.
Since the corps armed with Japanese swords, rifles and pistols confiscated from the Japanese Army, made their same tribe, the first victim of national resentment came to be born out of patience, and there appeared retaliation of heroic young men throughout North Korea and numberless Soviet soldiers and Korean communists were struck to death or crippled.
Countless young men were shot dead without legal trial or taken away to Siberia for forced labor. At that time, the Soviet Army was called a pack of red wolves, and the nickname nowadays is applied to the guerillas penetrating from North Korea.
On the night of August 26th, 1945, shortly after the inauguration of the Soviet Army Headquarters in North Korea (on August 25th), commander Chischakov made all the members, including Mr. Man Shik Cho, and Staff members, of 'Pyungnam Branch of the Korean Communist Party,' including Joon Hyuk Hyun, attend a conference at the temporary office of the Soviet Army Headquarters (a former railroad hotel) and ordered the immediate dissolution of the Pyungnam Branch of Preparatory National Founding Committee, and the inauguration of the Pyungnam Council of People's Commission, consisting of 16 members from each system.
Then the "Pyungnam Provincial Branch, Korean Communist Party" organized, centering with Joon Hyuk Hyun, directed by Hun Yung Park, Vice Premier of the North Korean Puppet Regime, who came over from South Korea under.US Military Government, and the Pyongyang City Branch, the Korean Communist Party', by Shi Woo Chang from Kan-Do were unified, by the pressure of the Soviet Army, and Shi Woo Chang and his party were lain under Joon Hyuk Hyun. But both of them (Shi Woo Chang and Joon Hyuk Hyun) attended the conference, in the capacity of delegates for the Pyung Nam Provincial Branch, Korean Communist Party.
Supervised by Major General Romanenko, civil administrator of the Soviet Army headquarters, the delegate conference was held in name only.
Taking no notice of speech or opinion, the conference formed the "Council of People's Commission" as planned.
Thus "The Pyungnam Preparatory National Founding Committee" was dissolved, only 10 days after its inauguration.
Mr. Man Shik Cho was commissioned as chairman of the council, so as to use his influence over the people, and the real powers, such as director (Joo Yun Lee), Special Police (Yong Bum Kim), the judiciary (Shi Woo Chang) and Pyongyang Police Station Chief (Chang Geun Song) consisted of communists chosen by the Soviet Army Commander, and since the leading members were under the supervision of Soviet Army advisors, it was a Soviet Military Government as it was.
Under such a situation it was next to impossible for Mr. Cho Man Shik and his party to carry out what they wanted, so they were forced to resign after they had been temporarily utilized.
The first duty requested of the Council of People's Commission by the Soviet Army was to provide food to the military occupation forces.
The Soviet Army took large amounts of rice to Russia, and from this point the plunders by the army began in earnest.
According to the expose by Mr. Hong Geun Lee, who escaped to South Korea from the North, the Soviet Army carried out 292,800 tons of rice to Russia in 1945, and 348,000 tons of rice in 1946, and 273 persons died of hunger at Sooha-Myun, Tanchun-Myun, Tanchun-Gun, Hamkyungnam-Do Province in 1946.
The delegates of the students' self-governing body at Yong ampo, Pyunganpuk-Do held an impeaching rally against the Soviet savageries on November 18th, 1945, and with this as opportunity, on November 23rd the students from Tong (east) Middle School and the First Technical School of Shineuijoo (Provincial Capital of Pyunganpuk-Do Province) marched toward the Pyungbuk Council of People's Commission and Provincial Public Peace Department, whereas the students from the Second Technical School and Normal School marched to 'the Headquarters of Pyungpuk Branch, Korean Communist Party, and additionally, those from the Pyungan Middle School and Commercial School made a protest demonstration against the Soviet savageries before the Shineuijoo Police Station. The participants amounted to 3,500 in addition to citizens, and under indiscriminate fire of Soviet tanks and aircraft, 23 were killed, 700 injured, and over 2,000 arrested. This is the so-called students' uprising of Shineuijoo.
On March 11th, 1946, the students of the Hungnam Technical School in Hamkyungnam-Do Province (North eastern Part of North Korea), seeing fellow students fall down from hunger in class, rushed down to the street, crying "give us rice" too' Taking this opportunity, over 13.000 students and citizens in Hungnam and Hamheung participated in the protest demonstration, taking placards 'Provide rice to us too.' In this demonstration, 3 were killed, 95 injured and more than 1,300 arrested.
When the communists were placed at a disadvantage, due to UN's entry in the Korean War, they genocided hundreds of thousands of imprisoned students and citizens throughout North Korea, running away to Manchuria.
Above all, the massacre in Hungnam Prison was the cruelest one. The Soviet Army took the generators of water power plants, the machines of the Hungnam Fertilizer Manufacturing Co and gold, silver and copper from Sungchun, Oonsan and Sooan to the Soviet Union, including 400 tons of copper ore, 600 tons of lead ore, 400 tons of Zinc ore, 600 tons of arsenious acid and others, 9200 tons. (The pure gold content is 2 tons and silver content is 25 tons)
In the beginning, stealing out was done in secret, but when further deception came to be hard, the army continued to steal in the name of the Council of People's Commission, in an imposing air.
The unrestricted issuance of Soviet MPC (military payment certificate), effective dated September 21st, 1945 enabled the Soviet soldiers to take possession of whatever they wanted. But pretty soon after the issue, an inflational crisis was made, and due to the rising insincerity of MPC, it was almost impossible to get something with the red bill. The monetary improvement of North Korea on December 12th, 1947 made changing only 700 won into new money per person, and the rest of the money of individual possession was confiscated in the form of deposit and the notes of the Bank of Korea were used for guerilla action in the south'
Fed up with the communist behavior, about 4 million North Korean people went South of 38th Parallel, and it's the unparalleled racial movement of world history.
The conference of five Provinces (Ham Kyungpuk-Do, Hamkyungnam-Do, Pyunganpuk-Do, Pyungannam-Do and Whanghae-Do) in North Korea, called in Pyongyang on October 8th, 1945, made it clear that the Soviet Union had subversion to put North Korea under her superintendence.
`The Provincial Conference in North Korea', organized as the first step for solo administrative system of the five provinces of North Korea was renamed as follows;
October 28th, 1945: The Administrative Bureau of five provinces in North Korea, February, 1946: The Provisional Council of People's Commission of North Korea. February, 1947: The Council of People's Commission of North Korea. September, 1948: the Korean Democratic People's Republic. Particularly, it's noteworthy that Sung Joo Kim, who had not appeared before the general public, appeared as a racial leader, disguising himself as general Kim Il-Sung.
As aforementioned, Sung Joo Kim, who had narrowly escape to the Soviet Union from a Japanese mop-up operation had been trained for four years there. And judging from this fact, there's no doubt the Soviet Communist Party had previous intentions to make Korea a Communist Country.
In the beginning, however, it caused considerable troubles for Kim Il-Sung to hold the reigns of the government, for he was not a match for the leading figures of the domestic faction, such as Joon Hyuk Hyun, Shi Woo Chang, Choo Yon Lee, Yong Bum Kim, Chung Ae Park (from Pyungannam Do), Jae Kap Kim Yong Ku Paek (Pyunganpuk-Do), Chae Ryong Kim (Hamkyungpuk-Do), Bong Wook Song and Duck Yung Kim (Hwanghae-Do). So Kim Il-Sung and his party, Kil An, Choon Choo Lim, Hyun Choi, Jae Min Kim and Yong Geun Choi were extremely feeble. This is the reason why Kim Il-Sung tried to form the basis of his party by all possible means. Now taking example, in September, 1945 namely within a month since Kim Il-Sung's coming into North Korea, he had Joon Hyuk Hyun, his formidable enemy, assassinated by a member of Chugwi dae, who was under direct control of Shi Woo Chang, on bad terms with Joon Hyuk Hyun. He was killed, in Pyongyang, in broad daylight, and it was surely outrageous for Kim Il-Sung to bury him with a social funeral service, regarding the assassination as the rightist terrorism without seizing the criminal.
Under such a situation, (between September and October) there came into North Korea the Chinese Communist Lineage leftists, so-called the Yunan faction, whose leading members were Doo Bong Kim, Mu Jung Kim, Chang Ik Choi, Il Woo Park, Bin Hahn, Chang Man Kim, Kong Heum Yoon and Jung Sook Huh, and it was sure to be a headache to Kim Il-Sung. But since he had the Soviet Army Headquarters backing him, he was placed at an advantage. So all of them, but Chang Man Kim, who pledged allegiance to Kim Il-Sung, were cleaned up or exiled during a long period of time. From this fact we can easily see his revengefulness.
October 10th through October 13th, 1945 immediately after the formation of the conference of five provinces in the North Korea on October 80, 1945 there was a secret rally of the persons in charge of the five provinces in North Korea, in Pyongyang, and it was made clear that the main participants were the district communist delegates who had participated in the five provincial conferences in the North Korea.
On the next day of the rally, a welcome meeting of Kim Il-Sung by the Pyongyang citizens was held, and at the meeting Kim Il-Sung was introduced by military governor Romanenko, racial leader and unparalleled patriot.
At the 3rd executive committee for enlargement of the North Korean Branch, Korean Communist Party, Kim Il-Sung was elected responsible secretary, and Mu Jung Kim and Ki Sup Oh became the second secretary, but then the communique on the US-Soviet Joint Committee, dated March 19, 1946, was disclosed in the name of The North Korean Communist Party.'
At the end of January 1,1946, Kim Il-Sung exiled the second secretary Oh Kim Sup, and instead of forming 'The Provisional Council of the propagation director, Moo Jung Kim was transferred to the artillery commander of the General Training Center for security staff members in July, and finally both of them were cleaned up.
It seemed necessary for the Soviet Army and Kim Il Sung's party to form political parties other than the communist one for the demonstration, so on October 12th, 1945 there was announced a communique in the name of Commanding General Chischakov and Chief of Staff Bankayski of 25th Soviet Army stationed in North Korea as follows:
Various democratic freedoms of the Korean people will be secured and formation and activities of democratic political parties and social organization will be authorized. Accordingly `The Chosen (Korea) Shinmin Party and 'the Chung Woo (Young Comrade) Dang, Chun Do Kyo and the Racial Socialist Party were organized. But because it was the communist trick to make political parties friendly, organizations regarded as disagreeable to them were dissolved and imprisoned unconditionally.
On November 3rd, 1945 the North Korean Democratic Party, consisting of racialists, including Mr. Man Shik Cho was organized for a showdown with the Communist Party, but was persistently forced to announce communique to support the trusteeship sealed at the Moscow conference with the Soviet Army and the Korean Communist' Party. They opposed to the last, so on January 5th, 1946, Mr. Man Shik Cho was imprisoned. the others were exiled, and the North Korean Democratic party became a subsidiary organ of the Communist Party.
The activating members of the party were as follows:
President; Man Shik Cho
Vice President; Yoon Yung Lee, Yong Geun Choi
Standing Committee: Jong Hyun Lee, Byung Yun Kim, Je Soon Woo, Ik Chin Kim, Nam Hang Baek, Jae Min Kim (Kim Chaek), Jong Wan Cho, Ki Whang Hong, In Sook Chyung, Hyun Sook Park, Yung Jin Oh, Kyoo Hwan Lee, Kye Hwan Lee, Moo Jung Yoon, Jae Chang Park, Seung Hwan Park, Ho Bin Lee and Jang Yup Yoon
All members but Yong Gun Choi and Jae Min Kim escaped to South Korea after Man Shik Cho had been imprisoned.
Meanwhile the members of the North Korean Council of People's Commission organized on February 8th, 1946 were as follows:
Chairman: Kim Il-Sung
Vice Chairman: Doo Bong Kim
Chief Secretary: Yang Wook Kang
Industrial Director: Hwan Lee Moon
Traffic Director: Hee Jin Hah
Agricultural and Forestrial Director: Lee Soon Keun
Communicational Director: Yung Yul Cho
Financial Director: Bong Soo Lee
Educational Director: Jong Shik Chang
Judicial Director: Yong Dae Choi
Security Director: Yong Gun Choi
Commercial Director: Dong Chan Hahn
Health Director: Ki Yung Yoon
Manager: Joo Yun Lee
Projecting Director: Jin Tae Chung
Labor Director: Ki Sup Oh
Propagation Director: Chung Won Lee
Of the above 17 members, Ki Yung Yoon and Dong Chan Hahn (both are independent) escaped to South Korea, 11 members, except Yong Gun Choi, Yang Wook Kang and Joo Yun Lee were cleaned up or exiled.