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Jang Jun-ha

Former Korean Liberation Army soldier who published the magazine Sasanggye and led the 1973 campaign for a million signatures petitioning for constitutional revision

Conscripted into the Japanese army as a student soldier, he escaped and joined the Korean Liberation Army in Chongqing, training with the US Office of Strategic Services for the planned advance into Korea. After liberation he returned home in Kim Gu's party. He founded the magazine Sasanggye in 1953 and received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1962. In 1973 he led the campaign for a million signatures petitioning to revise the Yushin constitution and was imprisoned in 1974 under Emergency Decree No. 1. In 1975 he was found dead on Yaksabong peak in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province.

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    1973 – 1979Emergency Decrees and the March First Democratic Declarationleader

    When a campaign to amend the Yushin constitution arose, the government suppressed it with emergency decrees; in 1976 dissidents issued the March First Democratic Declaration at Myeongdong Cathedral.

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