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
Viet Cong in
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
, 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
The flag of Vietnam, officially the National Flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (), or (), also (), was designed in 1940 and used during an uprising against the French in southern Vietnam that year. The red background symbolizes revoluti ...
.
See also
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People's Revolutionary Party Incident, related incidents in the past
References
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* {{cite journal, last=Tertitskiy , first=Fyodor, title=Star and Stripes: History of the North Korean Flag and its Place in State Ideology, url=http://archive.much.go.kr/cmm/fms/FileDown.do;jsessionid=zkrXDa30iWVNumFaYSwbtM3lhyJyEEKkXGIxC3JL1tVgAlq192wapyEmvA19YBMI.mus-web02_servlet_engine3?atchFileId=FILE_000000000005721&fileSn=14#.pdf, number=1–2, volume=3, date=August 2016, journal=Journal of Contemporary Korean Studies, oclc=6848975723, pages=265–284
1976 establishments in South Korea
1979 disestablishments in South Korea
Communism in South Korea
Fourth Republic of Korea
Juche political parties
Organizations established in 1976
Organizations disestablished in 1979
Political organizations based in South Korea