NORTH KOREAN POLITICAL SCHOOLS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012600130009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CO ID TIAL
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COUNTRY Korea
SUBJECT North Korean Political Schools
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la In late l9`1 g-radduates of central or L:at ral Labor Party schools received
appol ntmer..ts to impoor ?a . posts An the North Korean government or the p o-
viricia.l North Korean :Labor Dirty st uc a graduates of regional or pro-
vinc,a.3l party schools received appoints entr to posts in. the county party
structure The a l uates of the central or national schools were to determine
coertly the political thinking of the persons in the urjit to which t: ey were
being assigned.,
2 Applica. ,.ts to the North Korean political mL1Itary schools,, such as the jSeou1
Political Academy or the KTX Ch aek School,, were i?ega red to hav a perfect
labor party record. Graduates were given the rank of senior lieutenant or
above a attached to the North Korean army as political officers 4 Stutddnts
at t e KIM Ch?.aek School were more carefully selected and received more
ad mnced assignments than students at the Seoul Acade o St . eats at the
Seoul Academy; who were mostly refugees from South Korea, wee train. ed as
political scc ity off ?c.cers to operate behind the ad an(7ing North. Korean
an al the group at the academy, 'ic)rw-y as the Special Squad. (T ? ok Yol P 0an),
received 17-,stria t.ona In i.n.telligenn e and guerrilla activity. All members of
t? ens latter .'oup were being dispatched to South Korea.2
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On 20 July 1951 on. the grounds of the Korean Labor Party Headquarters Building
in.Peyongyang Yl Sung-yop, North Korean Minister of Justice addressed fifty
students of the Seoul Political Academy who bad been assigned to the ]astern
Liaison Office of the 526 Army Unit Some of the students were to be re..
assigned to clandestine recruiting missions under the cover of ROK police
and RQK army positions. Because of Is long residence in and knowledge
of South Korea and because of his command of remnants of the North Korean II
Corps behind United Nations lines, YI had directed North Korean guerrilla and
coitermespionage activity in South Korea since the beginning of the Korean war.
Students dispatched across the front lines included the following persons:
CHaOB Hon -mo
CHOI G Uhson.
SONG Song-wan
KIM Yon- op
Radio operators sent with the first group included the following persons:
CH?0 Won-chun
CHONG Song-chlae
0 Ki--ch'ang (0702/6386/2+90)
Radio operators sent with the second. group included the following persons:
CH?OE Pyongmhun (1508/3521/5651)
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Kim Yong. ki (6855/3057/1015)
Yi Sang-sil (2621/4161/1395)
YT ;angmho (,?621/4161/3185)
10a The following persons were wounded in attempting to cross the front lines:
AN Yong-sun (13/3057/8611.2)
AN Yong=sup. (13414/3057/73Il)
CH?OE Wonmchun
C$ONa.Song-ch?ae
BONG Chongmt?k (3163/6945/1795)
0 -Ki-ch.tang4
PAK. Kian.4hwan (2613/270/3562)
SONG C uasop
yi Sangki (2621/161/6386)4
Chom-tong (2692/7820/2639)
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ll;p Other students at the Seoul Political Academy included the following persons
CO L' Pyong-ki. (1508/35,21/1015)
Cie OE Pyongmkil (1508/3521/0679)
CgoNG -song
HANG Tok won (1660/1795/0337)
Nam-ch'51 (6855/0589/1796)
KIM Namas ik (685 5 /0589-' V) 4
K Song-t "ae (6855/5110/:3111)
N 0-song (2938/0063/2502)
PAK C ngoch ? uun (2613/T022/2504)
PAK Pose (2613/5165/4798)
.gam-a .g (6670/0005/0600)
TI Pyongmcb?un (2621/3521/250)
TI Sag -pong (2621/4161/1144)
II T ? ae dcb . (2621/3141/0,193)
120 In A pt 1951 the Eastern Liaison Office was at Songgo ri (i28-13, 38-08)
(DTa3120) and Ando-ri (128-12, 3828) (DT-3051). PAK 2613) (fnu) was director
of the office s7 The former director was HAS Chong-il (47 /6945/0001)a.
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134 At the end of February 1952, upon the order of the Central Committee of the North
Korean, Labor Party,. the political school at Chasong (126-39, 1-1-28) ((,,A-o493)
resumed training of espionage agents for dispatch to Sowth Korea 4 The school,
closed at the start of the Korean war, was training 180 men and sixty women, all
natives of South Korea who. went to North Korea after 25 June 1950. The men were
to go to the Chiri mountain (127. 44, 3520) (CQ-8l10) area to serve as liaison
agents; between guerrilla and village labor party units $ . The three-month training
at the Chasong school included courses in the history of the Communist Party,
W-oarl.d. history and social development, United States colonization policy, and
~r tel,l.igence cover techniques o The men also received extensive physical traini .g ..
Comma tp In late 1.951 the Seoul 'Political Academy, under the Korean
ja~ or Ear adquarters in Pyongyang was training between eight hundred
and are thousand students to organize Communist cells in any j?olitical or
mi.litai y -unit in the ROK, and dl,spatcbd the majority of its advanced studexata
to the 526 Army Uhi.t, the North. Korean guerrilla command. unit, for assigner
mert to 9Bgai.dance sections" and aid in line-crossing.
organIzation, mission, and .raining of these persons prior to crossing the
lines on about 15 September was reported in
Comment, Between 1 August and 10 September 1951 a Special Operations
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