Kim Jwa Jin

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What if Kim Jwa Jin the Korean Shinmin region's leader and an Anarchist had not been killed? Let's say Kim Il Sung and his pesky Stalinists are instead wiped out and once Korea is liberated Kim Jwa Jin and the Anarchists takes over the North rather then the Communists. What would be it's effects? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Anarchism

Autonomous Shinmin region (1929-1931)

The apex of Korean anarchism came in late 1929 outside the actual borders of the country, in Manchuria. Over two million Korean immigrants lived within Manchuria at the time when the Korean Anarchist Communist Federation (KACF) declared the Shinmin province autonomous and under the administration of the Korean People’s Association. The decentralized, federative structure the association adopted consisted of village councils, district councils and area councils, all of which operated in a cooperative manner to deal with agriculture, education, finance and other vital issues. An Army to fight for the defense of Shinmin was also set up and spearheaded by the great Korean Anarchist Kim jwa-jin which had great successes against the Japanese and Stalinist Armies using hit-and-run guerrilla tactics. KACF sections in China, Korea, Japan and elsewhere devoted all their energies towards the success of the Shinmin Rebellion, most of them actually relocating there. Dealing simultaneously with Stalinist Russia’s attempts to overthrow the Shinmin autonomous region and Japan’s imperialist attempts to claim the region for itself, the Korean anarchists had been crushed by 1931[citation needed].

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Kim Jwa-jin

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim. Kim Jwa-jin Hangul 김좌진 Hanja 金佐鎭 Revised Romanization Gim Jwa-jin McCune-Reischauer Kim Chwajin Pen name Hangul 백야 Hanja 白冶 Revised Romanization Baegya McCune-Reischauer Paegya Kim Jwa-jin (December 16, 1889January 24, 1930), sometimes called the "Korean Makhno" or by his pen name Baekya, played an important role in the Korean Anarchist Movement and in the development of Korean nationalism.
Kim was born to a wealthy family of the Andong Kim lineage in Hongseong County, Chungcheong province. His father was Kim Hyeong-gyu. When Kim was 18, he released 50 families of slaves when he publicly burned the slave registry and provided each family with enough land to live on. This was the first emancipation of slaves in modern Korea.[1]
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Kim Jwa-jin, had recognised and fought against Japanese imperialism from an early stage. In 1919 Kim established Northern military administration office army (북로군정서군, 北路軍政署軍). In October 21, 1920 General Kim lured up to 3,000 Japanese soldiers lead by Regimental Japanese commander Kano in the battle fields of Siberia to Chingshanli‎, where Kim's army killed or wounded many Japanese soldiers with another Korean independence army general Hong Beom-do, General Kim lead the Korean righteous armies to victory at the Battle of Cheongsanni.
Afterward general Kim was appointed as the chairman of an executive committee at the age of 38 and attempted to integrate the Independence Movement groups in Manchuria. When anarchist and nationalist groups founded a rebel state in Japanese Manchuria in the province of Shinmin in 1929, Kim Jwa-jin was chosen to lead its armed forces. He was charged with organizing and leading guerrilla attacks on the Japanese. Though the Japanese soldiers were far more experienced and better armed than Kim Jwa-jin's band, Kim's attacks were successful both in defending the young Anarchist community of Shinmin, and in encouraging other groups in North-East Asia to resist the occupiers. Kim Jwa-jin's exploits are said to be legendary in Manchuria and North Korea.
Kim Jwa-jin was assassinated in 1930 while repairing a rice mill the Korean Anarchist Federation had built in Shinmin. Although his assassin was never found, the assassin's handler was caught and executed.

[edit] Shinmin after Kim Jwa-jin

After the assassination of Kim Jwa-jin, the Anarchist Movement in Manchuria and Korea became subject to massive repression. Japan sent armies to attack Shinmin from the south, while Chinese Stalinists formerly allied with the anarchists attacked from the north. By the summer of 1932, Shinmin's most prominent anarchists were dead, and the war on two fronts was becoming untenable. The anarchists went underground and anarchist Shinmin was no more.
As a leader of the Korean independence movement, Kim is remembered in both North and South Korea. In 1991, the town of Hongseong restored his birthplace. A festival is now held in his honor every October. [2]

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  • Father: Kim Hyeong-Gyu
  • 1st Wife: Lady Oh (오씨 부인)
  • 2nd Wife: Lady Kim (김씨 부인)

  1. Son: Kim Du-han
  2. Grand daughter: Kim Eul-Dong
  3. Great-grandson: Song Il Gook

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  1. ^ Welcome to HONGSEONG ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: at hongseong.go.kr
  2. ^ Welcome to HONGSEONG :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::


[edit] Bibliography


  • Ha Ki-rak (1986). History of the Korean anarchist movement. Seoul: Anarchist Publishing Committee.


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Persondata NAME Kim, Jwa-jin ALTERNATIVE NAMES 김좌진, 金佐鎭, Baegya, 백야, 白冶 SHORT DESCRIPTION Korean anarchist. DATE OF BIRTH 1889-12-16 PLACE OF BIRTH Hongseong, Korea DATE OF DEATH 1930-01-24 PLACE OF DEATH Shinmin, Manchukuo Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jwa-jin"
Categories: 1889 births | 1930 deaths | People from Hongseong | Korean anarchists | Korean generals | Korean independence activists | Murdered anarchists | Beggars
 

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this looks like a cool idea lets make it work

A 3.5 year necro of a ZERO response thread from GMB?

What in God's name were you thinking?

You have been here for a year, you should know better than this.

I'm sending you off for a week with a Red Card, just for the common good.

Kicked for a week.
 
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