The National Alliance of Youth and Students for National Reunification, or the Pomchonghakryon, is a
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...
-based organization that promotes
Korean reunification
Korean reunification () is the potential reunification of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea into a single Korean sovereign state. The process towards reunification was started by the June 15th North–South Joi ...
. It was founded on 15 August 1992, the 47th anniversary of the end of
Japanese occupation on the Korean peninsula.
It considers the
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
-based
Hanchongryun
Hanchongnyon (Hanguk Daehak Chonghaksaenghoi ryonhap), also known as the Confederation of Korean Students’ Union or the South Korean Federation of University Students Councils, is a pro-North Korea leftist student organization in South Korea. ...
(South Korean Federation of University Student Councils), which was a well-known target of the
National Security Act in South Korea, as its southern headquarters. It also has an overseas branch based in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. It holds meetings roughly once a year, with the stated goal of ending the foreign domination and intervention in Korea and moving towards peaceful reunification of Korea.
See also
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Korean unification
References
KCNA News, 14 December 1997 accessed 3 March 2006
accessed 3 March 2006
External links
Pomchonghakryon (South branch) web site(in Korean)
Politics of South Korea
Politics of North Korea
Youth organizations based in North Korea
1992 establishments in North Korea
Student organizations established in 1992
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