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KPG(大韓民國 臨時政府)’ internal party’s and British, Chinese Reaction on Korean(Korean Independence Army)-American Cooperation

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2004, (73), pp.133-165
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Kim Kwang Jae 1

1국사편찬위원회

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The Korean Independence Army(KIA,韓國光復軍) was founded on September 17, 1940 at Chungking(重慶), at that time, where located the Chinese Provisional Capital during Japanese Invasion at the World War Ⅱ. The KIA attached to the Korean Provisional Government(KPG; 大韓民國 臨時政府). The KIA’s top objective was tried to participate the Allied armies’ military operations against the Japanese Imperialism. Finally, the OSS(Office of Stretegic Service)’ agenda was selected instead of the KIA’s and could not help accepting its agenda. The OSS and KIA’s military exercise at the KIA’s Second Detachment finally was accepted at the upper American Military Commander in China. In May, 1945, the KPG had started so-called “the Eagle Project” at Xian(西安) in China, which aimed at educating the military intelligence personnels. Also, the KIA and OSS founded the Korean-American Joint Command at the KIA’s Second Detachment. On the while, this project engulfed many different reactions within the KPG. A section of the KPG, the Korean Independence Party(KIP; 韓國獨立黨), which is main supporting groups in this project within the KPG and such others section as the Korean National Revoultionary Party(KNRP; 朝鮮民族革命黨) and the New Korean Democratic Party(NKDP; 新韓民主黨) had struggled another to obtain their dominating power in the US and the KPG’s military intelligence project. In the neighboured leading power nation, China, never accepted the KPG’s approaching into the US. They had to leave the KPG’s military section into the Chinese military system. Another power which had approached and inspected this contact very delicately was the British. Their objective was to obtain the KPG’s personnels to despatch the Burma-India Theater, where they had combated against the Japanese.

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