South Korean National Liberation Front Preparation Committee
| South Korean National Liberation Front Preparation Committee | |
|---|---|
| 남조선민족해방전선준비위원회 南朝鮮民族解放戰線準備委員會 | |
 Flag of the South Korean National Liberation Front Preparation Committee | |
| Dates of operation | 1976–1979 |
| Active regions | South Korea |
| Ideology | Socialism Juche Anti-Imperialism Anti-revisionism Korean Reunification Korean nationalism |
| Opponents |  Fourth Republic of Korea |
The South Korean National Liberation Front Preparation Committee was a left-wing and Pro-North Korea organization in South Korea active from 1976 to 1979.
The South Korean National Liberation Front Preparation Committee was created by South Korean leftists, in order to propagate socialist and communist ideas to the South Korean masses. The eventual goal of the SKNLF-PC was to organize the South Korean people and wage a guerrilla war similar to that of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) in South Vietnam, hoping to eventually create a socialist state and reunify with North Korea. The South Korean National Liberation Front was dissolved after many members were exposed and arrested by the South Korean military regime, including poet Kim Nam-ju. The National Liberation Front Incident is often compared to other instances where the South Korean state exposed (or at least claimed to have exposed) clandestine communist organization, such as the Revolutionary Reunification Party Incident and the People's Revolutionary Party Incident.
The flag of the South Korean National Liberation Front was based on the flag of North Korea. It closely resembled the way the flag of Viet Cong was modified from the flag of North Vietnam.[1] However, while Viet Cong's affiliations successfully established a formal competing government in South Vietnam (Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam) with a nominal armed wing (Liberation Army of South Vietnam) that actually took power in Southern Vietnam after a series of victorious campaigns that led to the Fall of Saigon, the North Korean-led counterpart could never establish any considerable resistance in Southern Korea and ended up being disbanded.
See also
[edit]- People's Revolutionary Party Incident, related incidents in the past
- National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ Tertitskiy 2016, p. 276.
Sources
[edit]- 한 (Han), 홍구 (Hong-gu) (22 May 2001). 이근안과 박처원, 그리고 노덕술. The Hankyoreh 21 (in Korean). Retrieved 19 January 2011.
- Tertitskiy, Fyodor (August 2016). "Star and Stripes: History of the North Korean Flag and its Place in State Ideology" (PDF). Journal of Contemporary Korean Studies. 3 (1–2): 265–284. OCLC 6848975723.