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Korean history
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June 6, 1937
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Choe Hyon's Unit
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Kim's partisans aided by Choe
Hyon's unit raid a Japanese outpost near Mount Paikdu and scores
another victory. Next day, some 200 Japanese Ken-Pei (military police)
in yellow uniforms arrive in trucks and start a massive manhunt. Koreans
suspected of aiding Kim Ilsung are arrested:
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Park Chung Yol, 1st from right, standing, is from Kapsan. All four men sitting were beheaded. Pak Nok Kum, the woman standing on
the left, was freed but killed in a 1940 fight with the Japanese.
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December 1937
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Han Ho, commander, 1st Division, 1st Army, Kim San Ho,
and Park Sun Il (Division Commander, 5th Army) are some of the many
partisan leaders killed during this month.
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August 6 1938
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Yi Hak Man, Commander, 7th Army, is killed. Kan Tong,
Kim Hak Sil (female), Ma Tong Hui, Yi Kye San (female), Kim Se Hyong
(Deputy Commander, 1st Army) and many other partisans are killed on this
day.
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February 23 1940
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Yang
Jinggyu, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army is killed by a group of Korean
traitors led by Kim
Sok Won. Cheng Ping, Yang's trusted lieutenant, leads the Japanese to Yang's
hideout. Yang is wounded and surrounded by his enemy - but refuses to
surrender and fights to the end. The Japanese show their respect to thi
s gallant warrior and give a samurai burial with Japanese honor guards.
NB: Today, there is a museum and a town named after Yang in Manchuria.
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Yang's body
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Kim Sok Won (on the right with dark glasses)
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July 12 1940
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Kim Chae Bom and Kim Kwang Hak, both Company
Commanders, 2nd Army, are captured and executed.
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August 1940
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Kim Il
Sung's guerrillas are losing people left and right.
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September 27 1940
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Park
Tuk Bum,
a close comrade of Kim Il Sung, Chief-of-Staff, 3rd Army, is arrested
and executed.
(photo: Park upon his capture along with captured weapons)
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January 30 1941
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In Manchuria a major disaster befalls upon the partisans: Chon Kwang (alias O Song Yun), political commissar of the 1st
Route Army - the ranking Korean partisan, surrenders to the Japanese and
discloses secret hideouts of several guerrilla c ommanders. This leads to the end of the 1st Route Army and increases
anti-Korean sentiment among the Chinese partisans. Chon Kwang is
well-known for his attempt to kill General Tanaka and for the founding of
the "Fatherland Restoration Associa tion", an underground guerrilla
support network in Korea and Manchuria.
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Most of the partisan leaders ( including Kim Kwang Hak, Kim Chae Bom,
and the senior Korean commander Chu Chin) are betrayed by their own
people and killed
off (photo: heads of dead partisans.)
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The Japanese displayed severed
heads of dead partisans (photo: heads are strung up on a laundry pole)
in order to intimidate the population into submission.
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March 19 1941
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General Nozoe declares the end of his war against the
anti-Japanese guerrillas in Manchuria and disbands his unit. General Nozoe
has eliminated about 15,000 Chinese and Korean guerrillas from 1932 to
1941.
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January 4 1943
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The Soviets are sending Soviet-trained guerrillas to
Manchuria. Most of these are partisans who fled to Siberia early in
1940. Their missions ended almost always in a disaster. The Soviets have
three training camps in Siberia: Okeans kaya Field School near
Vladivostok, Voroshilov Camp near Nikolsk and the 88th Special
Independent Guerrilla Brigade of the Soviet Army in an area near
Habarovsk. The Soviets plan to use these units as vanguards of their
planned attack on Manchuria and Korea.
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August 12 1943
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Park Kil Song, a native of Kapsan and a major in the
Soviet Army, enters Manchuria from Siberia leading a detachment of
Soviet-trained partisans. Park is arrested soon after and spills on the
Soviet training programs in Siberia. Han Hung Son and Kim Chun Sop, both
Soviet captains, are also arrested and executed.
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| November
3 1946 |
The
first democratic election in Korea. |
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| September
9 1948 |
The
Democratic People's Republic of Korea founded. Kim Il Sung is elected
Head of State. |
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| June
25 1950 - July 27 1953 |
The great victory of the
Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War. |
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May 25
1955
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Formation of Chongryun (The
General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.)
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| November
2 - 13 1970 |
Fifth
Congress of the WPK, the congress of great victory of socialist
industrialization. |
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| July
4 1972 |
Announcement
of the North-South Joint Statement. |
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| December
25 1972 |
The
Socialist Constitution of the DPRK published. Kim Il Sung is elected
Head of the State. |
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| April
9 1973 |
The
law on enforcing universal compulsory ten-year higher-secondary
education and compulsory one-year pre-school education proclaimed. |
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March 21 1974
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The law on eliminating completely a taxation
system proclaimed.
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April 29 1977
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The Land Law of the DPRK proclaimed (for
enforcement from June 1 1977).
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December 15 - 17 1977
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The first Congress of the Sixth Supreme
People's Assembly held.
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| October
10 - 14 1980 |
Sixth
Congress of the WPK. Kim Il Sung puts forward the unification proposal
that the country should be reunified by founding a Confederal Republic
through the establishment of a unified national government. |
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| August
26 - 31 1981 |
The
Symposium of Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries on Increasing
Food and Agricultural Production held in Pyongyang. |
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| December
31 1992 |
An
agreement on Reconciliation, Nonaggression, and Cooperation and Exchange
between North and South Korea adopted. |
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| December
31 1992 |
A
joint declaration on a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula adopted. |
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea
