PoliticsJuly 1935

Korean National Revolutionary Party

The Uiyeoldan, the Korean Independence Party, the Korean Revolutionary Party and others formed the National Revolutionary Party in Nanjing, the fruit of the drive for a single party in China proper.

Founded in July 1935 around Kim Won-bong’s Uiyeoldan, it brought together Jo So-ang’s Korean Independence Party, Ji Cheong-cheon’s New Korea Independence Party, the Korean Revolutionary Party and the Great Korea Independence Party; Kim Kyu-sik also joined.

When the Uiyeoldan faction took control, nationalists such as Jo So-ang and Ji Cheong-cheon withdrew. Kim Gu, who stood by the Provisional Government, never joined and formed the Korean National Party (1935). The party became the Korean National Revolutionary Party in 1937 and formed the Korean National Front Federation, which created the Korean Volunteer Corps. Kim Gu’s camp formed its own federation, and in 1940 the Kim Gu, Jo So-ang and Ji Cheong-cheon groups merged into the Korea Independence Party, the mainstay of the Provisional Government.

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States at the time: Republic of China
Places: Nanjing

People

Kim Won-bong1898 – 1958
leader · Leader of the Uiyeoldan, the National Revolutionary Party and the Korean Volunteer Corps; Deputy Commander of the Liberation Army
Jo So-ang1887 – 1958
participant · Author of the Doctrine of Three Equalities, the basis of the 1941 Founding Principles
Ji Cheong-cheon1888 – 1957
participant · Commander of the Korean Independence Army in the joint Korea–China campaigns and Commander-in-Chief of the Liberation Army
Kim Kyu-sik1881 – 1950
participant · Envoy of the New Korea Youth Party to the Paris Peace Conference, later Vice-Chairman of the Provisional Government
Kim Gu1876 – 1949
related figure · Known as Baekbeom; founded the Korean Patriotic Organization and led the Liberation Army as Chairman of the Provisional Government

Before and after

Earlier: 1934 Long March
Later: 1936 Xi’an Incident

Themes that include this event

Republican China and Imperial Japan1912 – 1949
The age when the Republic of China, born of the 1911 Revolution, passed through warlord division, the May Fourth Movement, the United Front and the Northern Expedition, fought Japan’s invasion and split in civil war — as Japan moved from Taishō democracy through the Manchurian Incident and military coups to the war in China and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and colonized Korea resisted through the March First Movement and armed struggle