Yan'an faction
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| McCune–Reischauer | Yŏnanp'a |
The Yan'an faction (
North Korean government after the division of Korea following World War II
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The group was involved in a power struggle with pro-Soviet factions but Kim Il Sung was eventually able to defeat both factions and dominate the North Korean government, allowing him to push for unification during the Korean War. "Yeonan" is the Korean reading of the Chinese communist town Yan'an, the capital of the Yan'an Soviet.
Led first by
Workers Party of North Korea. Many members of the Yan'an faction had fought in the Chinese Eighth Route Army and New Fourth Army and thus had close relations with Mao Zedong
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Influence
The group included thirty Korean People's Army (KPA) generals by the time the Korean War started. Mu Chong was vice marshal at the Ministry of Defence, Pak Il-u was minister of internal affairs, and deputy commander North Korea-China Combined Forces Command. Kim Ung was KPA front commander in 1951, Pang Ho-san, Lee Kwon-mu and Kim Chang-dok were corps commanders.[1]
List
- Kim Tu-bong
- Choe Chang-ik
- Mu Chong
- Ho Jong-suk
- Pak Il-u
- Han Pin
- Yun Kong-hum
- So Hwi
- Kim Chang-man
- Kim Won-bong
- Ri Yu-min
References
Citations
- ^ ISBN 9781472405838.
Sources
- Bragg, Christine: Korea, Vietnam and US Foreign Policy 1945-75, Heinemann, 2005 ISBN 0-435-32708-9
- Noack, David: Das Wendejahr (The turn-around year), junge Welt, 3 December 2011 (in German)
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