해방정국기 김원봉의 정치활동－독립운동가에서 정치가의 길로－

Abstract

On December 1, 1945, Kim Won Bong who returned to his country as a Head of Military Affairs in Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea emphasized that the nation’s forces will be organized in the future should protect the safety of the subjugated class, mentioning “Our nation’s forces is people’s forces. We will fight and protect the profit of peasants”. At the same time, he was active in the solidarity with major political powers. From this, we could find that he had a strong will of Right-and-Left Joint Movement in the line with the Cooperation Front in the period of independent movement. As the Political Council and Korean Independent Central Council were combined, and Legal Genealogical Theory of the Provisional Government was broken, Kim Won Bong left the Provisional Government with Seong Ju-Sik and Kim Seong-Suk. His final destination was the left-united front, Democratic People’s Front. He finally chose the reality of political rivalries which aimed the seizing initiative of nation building. Although Kim Won Bong’s activities as a president of Democratic People’s Front resulted to meet the insistence of communists taking the leadership of Democratic People’s Front, he adhered to his own political move based on Chosen National Revolutionary Party(after People Republican Party). However, after the general strike on September 1946 and struggle on October, his activities became so precarious strengthen the pressure of US Military Government. As an assessment that he was a ‘the Noncommunist left-leader’, although in the eyes of an American worked in US Military Government, if Kim Won Bong had a room of selection, he was not involved with communists. Meanwhile, as Lyuh Woon-hyung was assassinated in July 1947, the fact that Kim Won-Bong received the attention of Buklodang which needed the new partner, while he defected to North Korea in the same year and discussed the establish of temporary constitution with leadership of Buklodang implied that the relationship between Kim Won-Bong and Buklodang was cumulated. In this situation, as the possibility of single-handed election in South Korea has risen, for Kim Won-bong Pyongyang was a refuge of his life and had expectations as a new political stage. As the issues of Korea was transferred to UN in the fall on 1947, he had no place in South Korea, and he defected to North Korea under the name of participation in the Joint Conference of North and South in April 1948.