POLITICAL INFORMATION: ACTIVITIES AND PLANS OF KOREANS IN MANCHURIA

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
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• Publication Date: May 26, 1947
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SUBJECT Political roi*tioz ctivities and Plana of
Koremns in Manchuria
ENThAt NTELLIGENCE:
INTELUGENCE REPORT
ORIGIN 3
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y 1947
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1, In Aprla 1946 a group of 15 Koreans went to Mukden headed by
LI Paek-ktgl. ) to establish there a branch offlee
of the Korean ProVlsional GoPai.nment, Wham-I:hal. Note: Korean
Pr 071.s i or:4a 1, government Representative air ov,p is probably ni-
as the lc.p'G was' disbnde.d in -April 1946,,)
F-2 2 in januarY- 1947 a tIpl it occurred 1tLii this Exlanizatit.m which
was the outcome of a strained relationsh4 between LI Paek-kun
and_-PAIC.PW.1715.2 4,)` .;?,11( ) (also Imam as POKE Tseng-il
? )0, 'thie-f of the KRG, LI felt that 11.! had been un-
tairly criticized .bir PAL,: oho 'aad accused hir-. k.eeping in-
e fficient, mer,i in the Mukden office ites -"then replaced by
Kuanf; -;410' '46.1 ) (Shanghai Nate z LI Kuang- shall 41 J.L) )
isador - of ?the long U Association and underground t'iorker in Korea
-for the To'.P4 in 1919? ) vh .110,3 heads the Ifulvion office of the KRG
ith only four o the ro aho -i;urn ,i-te ad st0.b.- rariche s, onein
ChaYlgchun? one in Saupingchist (124 43i)) and two in Eirira
126-'42s 4j-50) Eleven others re signed ziti LI -Pdek4;ain and
Ilre presently associv?tted,
YUP,ng ,* however; will lea
joln forces with LI Peek
Paek-kun's clique is
i-,ivities directed at Nor
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cif the Chine se Military Affair s- Comm is ion in Chungking Some
1;i,rp.e before the Llino-3apanese Incident 7-(2917?)? he held the
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April 19464 he was commander of the Patrol Troops attached to
the General Headauarters of the Korean Kuanfu Army in Chungking.
At the same time he was given the post of Chief of Police Affairs
apartment in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Korean
Provisional Government? which post he still theoretically holds?
even though he has broken with the KPG (KRG) in Mukden.
F-2 4. Closely associated with LI Kuang and the KRG is the Korean Inde-
pendent Partys headed by KIM Hak-kyu C4- Ofti )s in Mukden. ?
0-1 LI Paek-un, formerly commander of the Military Police of 25X1X6
i:orean Restoratfton Aroy in F.hanghai, went to MukOen in March 1946
to organize the KEA in Yanchuria, Ho was connected with the Korean
Representative Group in Eukdens but was ousted by General WANG
11-so ( 4 ), then oh of of the Korean Affairs Sections
MCC? Mukdon, on the advice of PAK: Nam-pa and un Hak-kyu? LI
had been kept in po3er by his group of strong-arm men. General
1;:ANC had these men jailed? thereby forcing LI Paek-kun to resign.
6. LI Paok-kun was in Hange:low and iunmixv for short periods during
the ware fle was never in Chungings but might have tried to
give that impression, among ha acquaintances in Manchuria in order
to enhance his prestige. He made a short patrol into the interior
against the Japanese s but was never attached to the patrols of the
'a.Rit in Chungking.
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On 23 March 1947 K.:1; Ji R
-ung-a.a., ,04.AuL. is a Korean colonel in
the Chinese National Armys came to Shanghai on his way to Manchuria.
Ills plan was to set up an intelligence net in Manchuria directed
against Communists and Zovieta in North Korea and the Dairen area.
The project was to i Orectet/ by KIM under the guidance of General
Ch'ong-ell'on ( 4 71,k ), commander of the YEA. LL:E's
plans changed however? and he is now in South Korea Ilith RI1E
ynR-man. ;:IfF; plan Is now in abeyance, 7.nstead? Lir is to go
to Antang (12A-22p/1.0-07) to join the 52nd National Aroy as e G-2
officer, with 'which ho has served in the past as well as with the
29th Route Army guerrilla fo.oces. His mission will be the trisband-
meat of the LlIG in Manchuria,
UP '
KIM is to be qccempanied, by WZ Un-ch'ung (A 1%!..A A:71 ) and Colonel
CHANG Elinv, (a. 192 )s a Chinese. KIM Un-ch'ung joined the IG
in January 19471 hd'resigned a, generalship in the Chinese National
Airforce on 14 April 1947. He is to be the chief of the KRG during
its disbandment. Colonel CHANG, former commander of Military Police
Headquarters in Chiuchiang (116-05,029-43), is to be the Military
Police commander of the 52nd Army in. Antung,
KIM Ji-ung
to recruit
in 3.'aenchuri
to rebuild
ung was to
up an a.omy,
small. The
armies for
oolumn.
had also planed to go to.Uiju (Gishu) .(124-32,40-12)
students for training in the Chinese National armies
a. This was part of a general plan of General LTZ's
the ichA :tn.Manchuria. KIM Hak-kyus with whom KIM Ji
nave worked, is already using studeot refugees to build,
although the number of students recruited to date is
plan was to have the students trained in the National
a year;, then to send them back to North Koren as a fifth
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