POLITICAL INFORMATION: THE KOREAN REPRESENTATIVE GROUP IN MANCHURIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000850006-5
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• 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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SUBJECT Political Inforrnatiozt The Korean Representative
Group in Manchuria
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25X1A6a or previous reports on the Korean
Representative Group:.
ober 1978 from the
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n c:pra ative Group (%G) is N"ukdan ar?e:
The leading ver tonne
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1.cw-, r.?1F3.".x'ftr?n KIM Rak=.ic.nr %~, ' ~ who is also Chairman of tho orean
naet ii ie .c Fart -v i n flukd.E.n,
LLrV-Gxenerd.J.- CH AY"' Uhin V5, A- whose ,alias is CIAT,,t~ i1yon-.kun t.1iT .
h-ha-?F I ran of Gene-fr. a1 I f'" 2
h i t..an of Relief Adinini tra?ti c.n: Elf' Born;-&n
CCh=3.irrr,an of Civi?.l. Afairs: 1 Y:Ai-tong ,
Upon the dissolution of the Korean Provisional Gover~nment in China after the
o-inue? a for!i,Ie ; off- r ziit ?:i or KI Kowa P!$ ?un ~k~ ) y ac the
Cha._rrnen of the Korean Ref v vorrtative Group in Chita witki headiuarter in "Tarxiei.n
Tile was ferried under .S un to administer Korean affairs in Chj as s,,.l.ff.icaf ~
c-onorric and euT'!:, hiriese Nations.]. Goverrr ent finances the K (a? giving
it a :A-um equal ?:to U a5;OO a month? In addition to t; is sum, the KRG receive.
~?ertain funds from t to Ku . t~?? .ntang' pprty an the B- UL, ice) E cond Depa'rtm.entt?
Ministry of National Defeus6,7'
h e !r'.& is me re..-y a nuibs'4-L -L:,te organ for +hp Adm ri strative organs of the Chinese
_ii~ional Go-ver.n.wsmnt i"a oonl scatin c re'enerssyll p:x-erty owned by Koreans
of This tcan iI, :o the Chinese I.e the rt L:. cooperation by the KRG Faith
Gevernrnent, ber,erviting the Chin,,,-3r, rather than the Koreans in China
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Ct?yY':,.t sca'tions or: pros ert`y ot,np d hV Koreana occurred in Peiping, Ti entt s.Lrl and
Shanghai during 19Lh,. ` h Chi ncso Govurxnient depends of on the KRG to
solve all Korean prohlerrra, rather than depending on Korean ac: ;Ieties and associati.cns..
The KRG e4teb7 i shed b ?ancsh offices in most of Manchuria; these offices seryed as
assisting organs for the hinese National Governor nt.> The Korean Residents Lasoa?=
,ation, Various ous K.oa'ean Protos ant societies and the Sino-Korean Cultural. Association
are the in.por'tant organizations among the Koreans in Manchuria. 25X1X7
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6. Within the KRG are two types of individuals: (a) The pro-Chinese element and old
Korean residents of Manchuria who loft K:>rea in 1903 and 1919; and (b) Former
Japanese collaborators, pro-Japanese, who are presently using; the KRG for protection.
In both these categories are opportunists and unscrupulous elsments.,
6. The pro-Chinese element of the KRG at one time supported the Hung A Tan
The Hung A Tan was a group formed to carry out the confiscation of property owned by
Koreans who had collaborated with the Japanese; but this group also confiscated the
25X1A2g property of non-collaborationists and killed 46 Koreans. General WANG I1-so
. ) (See for report on General WANG's activities) was instrumental
in dissolving this group and in securing the arrest of its members, two of WANG's
men leing killed in the process by members of the Tlung A Tan. At that time, General
1"'ANG was the chief of the Korean Administrative Department of the President's North-
east Field Headquarters. The events described above occurred in the summer of 1946.
The pro-Japanese element in the kung A Tan joined the KPG shortly after the Hung
A Tan was dissolved.
7. Because the KRG acts more as a special service organization to the Chinese National
Government than as a group devoted to the interests of Koreans, the Koreans them-
selves do not rely on the KRG but attempt to solve their problems alone.
YI Podian, CL' CE Tung-hak, KIM To?=myong
S. The KRG is actually controlled by a woman, YI Po-uUn `* ~ ), alias YI Mi-yong , CS
( ). She controls the KRG through financial backing, supplying it with
NEC41,,000,000 a month4 YI's financial. support comes from General t'EN Chiang,
Chief of NECC G-2 Section until 5 September 1947? and two other officers of high
rank, names unknown;, General WEN is reportedly connected with two opium factories
in Mukden.
9. YI Po=-un is the adopted daughter of PAK Sun (also known as PAK Chan-ik ~ and
PAK Nam='pa )t 4 jrChairman of the Korean Representative Group in Nanking. She
is 36 years old,, a native of P'y'ongyang (heijo). Her present address is house 27,
2nd Section of K'ang T'ai Street, Pei Shih District, Mukden,, YI is living with a
Korean C11'CE Tung-hak (4td It It ), alias CI1'OE Kae?sok (, Tsa) ane a son of
PAY Sun, PAK Yong-chun C}}TOE is a native of Iwon (Rig?n), Namyong
Namdo1 Korea; during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, he held a high official
position with the Manchukuo Government. He is at present unemployed. In early
1.947 C115OE made a trip to Seoul and returned to Manchuria where he recently made a
trip to Harbin and Changchun, reason unknown. YI Po un left Nanking by plane in
late June 1947 and returned to Mukden; the reason for her visit to Nanking is unknown.
YI Po-un and CH'OE Tung-hak are affiliated with two distinct groups of Koreans;
(a) The Korean Representative Group in China, which is pro-Chinese and vhich is
affiliated with KI~. Koo and his colleagues of the former Korean Provisional Government
in Chungking, most of whom are now in Korea; and (b) the unscrupulous former prom
Jeptinese element, opportunists and so-called Communists led by XI,' To-myong, cousin
of YI Po-un, at present in Seoul, This group maintains direct communications with
South Korea through its connection with leftist political organizations. It also has
a liaison with North Korea and Chinese Communist held Manchuria through the Chinese
Communist Party in Manchuria.
I YI's history during the Japanese occupation is a history of collaboration with Japanese.
figures in Manchukuo,; YI., at the time of the Japanese occupation, was Closely
associated with ha- cousin, Kl}r. To-myong ( 9~ ), whose Japanese name was
TAXAXAMA Domio ,tj
j, DA ). KIM was at one time an important official in the
Manchukuo Government; he later became a "self-styled" Communist. KIM had two elder
brothers,whose Japanese names were TAKAYAMM.A Michiaya ( a-t ' t,;) and TAKAYAMMA
tom , ). YI was closely
Michitake or TAKAYP?.`A Michine
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associated with the brothers and through them acquired a wide acquaintance with
top Manchukuo figures; during the war she was the mistress*of a member of the Japanese
Gendarm.-rie, YHIROTA ~t 7 ). YI, at this time, was a wealthy woman.
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