POLITICAL INFORMATION: THE KOREAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY IN MANCHURIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000830006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 12, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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COUNTRY China
Party in Manchuria
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The Korean Independence Party (KIP) was organized by the Korean Representative
Group (KRG) in China. The headquarters of the KIP in Manchuria,. is in Mukden.
The leading personnel of the KIP in Manchuria include:
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also vice chairman of the K iG in Manchuria.
Chairman: KIM :iak kgu
Secretary General: PAK Mg-chukn son of PAK Stara,, chairman of
the KRG in Narking.
Chief of the Information Section: RO U-sang
: CHONG Chung-sin (f ` 9
1!&- ? in August 1947
Chief of the Operations
Section:
Chin Tbecame chief of this
section.
rjt- ` ), ?om-nanding officer
Chief of the Training Section: C#POF f6k-chu Gil -,
;af a battalion of the Korean Stilf Defense Atrnqo
Chief of the General Affairs Section: fI Si-ch'an ( ); in August 1947
KID In i (! ` l ) became chief of
2. The KIP party list in Manchuria has approxImtel,7 200 names. There are three
elements within the KIP:
bo fbigrant Koreans who left ,Korea In 1903 and are mostly fan ers, and Korems
who left Korea in 1919 to live in Manchuria and are mostly cons,rvatives.
e. Pro-Japanese, one-time collaborators, together with a certain number of
opportunists and unscrupulous individuals.
Since February 1947, the KIP has published a monthly magazine, Lon Kuk (3L
in Mukden.
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