Study Of Kim Won-Bong Fighting Against Japan In China

In 1910, after Korea was annexed by Japan, the independence movement was forced to move to the Northeast of China. In 1916, in order to learn German military, Kim Won-bong came to China with the ambition of the Korea’s resurrection. However, with the first world war broke out, he was obliged to stop his study. With the ethnic tensions between China and Japan upgraded, China had gradually become the center of national liberation movement in East Asia. It provided a beneficial international environment for the development of Korea independence movement in China. In 1918, Kim Won-bong came to China again to carve a career. It’s the beginning of Kim’s 27 years fighting against Japan in China.At first, Kim Won-bong didn’t think the Korea independence movement had the conditions to establish a national army. So he turned to righteousness fierce struggle to fight against Japanese imperialists. When the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was formed, Kim Won-bong shifted activity course and trained the Korean revolutionary cadres in the next 10 years. With the ethnic tensions between China and Japan intensified, war between China and Japan broke out in the end. Kim Won-bong seized the opportunity to get great support from China, and he established the Korea Army of volunteers on the basis of trained Korean revolutionary cadres; After the break-out of the Pacific War, Kim Won-bong took various factors into consideration, so he chose to join the Korean temporary government, and he actively tried to make the Korean temporary government join the world anti-fascist.Kim Won-bong’s activities in China were divided into four stage, the four stage was influenced by the development of Korean independence movement and the changes of China and even world situation.Kim Won-bong fighting against Japan in China is a long and tortuous process, and is of great significance. So it has national and international double attributes. For the Korean nationality Kim Won-bong is a progressive nationalist, and promotes the development of Korean independence movement. For China, he is a good friend of the Chinese people. His Anti-Japanese activities in China promote the development of relationship between China and Korea. From the view of the world, he is an antifascist who pursuits justice and peace, and proposes the Korean nationality should join the world anti-fascist. Kim Won-bong, as a left leader of the Korean independence movement, makes contributions to the Korea’s national liberation and the World Anti-Fascist War. And he is a person that can’t be ignored in the modern history of Korea and the modern history of relationship between China and Korea.