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Kim Du-bong

Hangeul scholar and pupil of Ju Si-gyeong who led the Korean Independence League in north China

He worked on compiling a Korean dictionary and wrote the grammar Joseon malbon. After the March First Movement he went into exile in Shanghai and was active in the Provisional Government and the Korean National Revolutionary Party. In 1942 he became chairman of the Korean Independence League in north China, whose Korean Volunteer Army fought Japan alongside the Chinese Eighth Route Army. After liberation he went to North Korea, led the Yan'an faction and chaired the Workers' Party of North Korea, but was purged around 1958.

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    1942Korean Independence League and Korean Volunteer Armyleader

    Socialist independence activists in north China founded the Korean Independence League around Kim Du-bong and reorganized the North China Detachment of the Volunteer Corps as the Korean Volunteer Army.

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  • World War II and Korea1937 – 1945

    Wartime mobilization and exploitation, independence armies, from the Cairo Declaration to liberation