FACTIONS WITHIN KOREAN COMMUNIST GROUP

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 18, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Korea
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
UN FORMATION REPORT
SECURITI. INFORMAIIA
SUBJECT Factions Within Korean Communist Groups
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1. Immediately after the end of the war, there were three major political parties
in North Korea: the Korean Communist Party, headed by Communists from the
USSR; the New People's Party, composed of Communists from Yorrcui and formerly
called the Yenan Independence Alliance; and the Chos6n Democratic Party, first
headed by CHO Lian-sik) a nationali st, but later by CIPOE Yong-k6h, a pro-
Soviet. In August 19146, the first two of these groups merged into the North
Korea Labor Party (NKLP).*
2? In South Korea, the post-war parties included the Korean Communist Party,
the New People's Party, the People's Party, and the Social Labor Party. The
Comeunist, Parity was divided between two factions, a pro-Soviet group headed
by PAK H6n-yang, known as the democratic centralism faction, and the "meeting "
faction, headed by LING Chin ( ), advocating more open policy decisions
and discussions and less central control. KAM, who was trained in the USSR
and served in the Soviet army during the war, had been sent to South Korea
by the Soviet Komendatura in Pyong-ang to establish a Communist party.
He was out -maneuvered by PAK Hn-yg and returned to Pyongyang, where he
worked for the Soviet counter-intelligence (Kontrrazved.ka) after the forma-
tion of the South Korea Labor Party (SKLP).
3. 7fhen the SKLP was formed, the Soviets in Pyoric7ang mpressed their support
for this party and declared the Social Labor Party reactionary. Later, after
the north-south politcal conference, SKLP and NKLP were declared united in
the Korea Labor Party.** One of the leaders of the southern Communists, MUN
Kap-song ( < 4 pl-4- ), who had joined the Chinese Communist Party at Harbin
and instructed Koreans in the Chinese Communist forces, moved from the south
to North Korea about the time of the union. He had served on the ceetral
committee of thp Korean Communist Party but had, like KANO Chin, differed
with PAK HKn-yo'ng over the policy of SKLP. He returned to Pyonryang and
became affiliated with the NKLP.
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4. The Korean Communist grout) from the early postwar period Was
three factions, with the following protagonists:***
a. Soviet faction -- fToviet-born
Communists, about 45 percent
KILl Il-song
Kr!, Chgaek. (decq:ased)
CHU Ydng-ha (4A)****
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divided into
or Soviet-trained Korn-ns, most radical
of the hLP.
Yong-kon? officially
Democratic ?arty
head of the
Il-u, chief of the New 'People's Party
110Chong-suk ( i 1 0 tmember of the
1,A4L),
New People's arty
Yenan faction -- Chinese-trained Koreans, middle of the road aid op-
portunistic, about 25.percent.
KI1.1 Tu-pong
HI N Pin ( gc)
Nin-san )
ohm Si-u
Kr.: i:u-chrig
CI110% Chlan,z-ik (,t. k )
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c. rationalist faction -- 4vided into two sub-factions
Denocratic centralist faction, 20 percent
PAK Hon-yong
CH' 07; Yoni7t-ta1 (41L )
HO Non (ft )
YI Chu-ha and Kin Sam-yong? deceased
n:leeting" faction -- about 10 percent
SANG Chin
LUU Kap-song
Kr.: Yon-an
Yl Kang-lailc
LI Sung-yep
PAEic, Kan-un (9 4:1 )
5. rhe Soviet group is the controlling factor in all Earth Korean politics,
This group vas the firat 611 'the ground after the war, when the Chinese fac-
tion were still returning from China and separating thenselves from the
Chinese Communist armies in which they had been included. Nereover, the
Soviet faction has the backing of the U5:2.. In the 67-member Central Com-
mittee of the NKLP, the Soviet faction has the largest number of representa-
tives, as follows:
Soviet Faction (33,
KIM Il-sig
HO Ka-i
ydno-ha
PAK Il-u
Ch&ig-ae (,1siE
KANO Lb'n (deceased
Kin Kyo-yong
PAK Chgang-ok
K CV 3)
KIM
In
Han-chung
KIM Ung
4 dead)**ii.g*
KIM Chae-uk
Ygl ( )
KrIChin-hon
Km Stg-hrra
KIM 566-pok (deceased)
TAt S6ng-su
CHANG Sun-myding
KIN Ko-ran g (deceased)
PAK Chgang-sik
PAK Tong-son
TI Sung-,un
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SON Chae-nun
KL Chik-hy6g
71 S6ng-ik
/I Sun-kun
7'ArGUak-se
TI K%tgn-mu. (rioceased)
Kfll Kyong-sbk
.CHAM Chg8i
KIM
Chgan
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Yenan Faction (17, 2 dead)
KI Tu-pong
KIM Chlaek (decoaued)
GIME Chsang-ik
KIM Nang-11
CHIN Pan-su
CHO Yong
HAI Il-pin
?Ai Nun-il
Nationalist Faction (17, 1 dead)
, GONG Chun-tlaek
Ky&ig-t6k
KLIMin-san
CHt0E Su-yang
HAN S&-ya
KIM Ung-ki
PAK Hyo-sam
KIM Sang.-0W?'
CHANG Si-u
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CU' 0t Chae-rin
HOThhollg-suk
YI Chung-un
KILl Tae-un,
Kvin-ch'Sng
KIM (deceased)
CHANG Ilae,41
Yr..1, Mae .
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CHONG Ku-hyon
II Tong-hwa
Yl Yun-min
KIM Kiang-pin
PAK Kum-ch' ].
YI Tlae-chun
/I Chung-ik
KIM Yong-cu (deceased)
Comment: Background on this party has been previously reported 50X1.
;omment: Although this merger was 1or2al1y declared, apparently
the two parties, to some extent continued to function separately in
their respective zones., Probably the merger was more effective on
orerall direction than in sectional or-Jnization, since a re-combina-
tion pf the tuo narties occurred after the worth Korean invasion of the
south ?
Comment Both sources were in agreement on the leading
members of these groups.
Comment: a less detailed report
on the same -Moot, CU Y6ng-ha was mentioned as a member of the 50X1
pro-Chinese faction in the North Korean Government.
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Comment: This is the standard Central Committee _List. It is not 50X1
known that has been done about replacing members of the Committee who
have died, either in the course of the war like KAM Kon and lc= Ch'ank?
or previously.
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