Human Death in North Korea - Deaths by Firearm in North Korea, People Executed by North Korea, Cho Man-Sik, Pak Hon-Yong (Paperback)

Chapters: Deaths by Firearm in North Korea, People Executed by North Korea, Cho Man-Sik, Pak Hon-Yong. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Cho Man-sik (Korean:, pen-name Kodang) (1 February 1883 October? 1950) was an activist in Korea's independence movement. He became involved in the power struggle that enveloped Korea in the months following the Japanese surrender after World War II, but was eventually forced from power by the Soviet-backed communists in the north. Placed under house arrest in 1946, he later disappeared into the North Korean prison system, where he is generally believed to have been executed. Cho was born in Kangs-gun, South P'yngan Province, now in North Korea. In his youth he was an activist within Korea's Christian community, but after Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910 he became increasingly involved with his country's independence movement. His participation in the 1919 Sam-Il protest marches led to his arrest and detention, along with tens of thousands of other Koreans. After his release, he dedicated himself to non-violent resistance to the occupation, a stance which earned him the epithet "The Gandhi of Korea." He advocated a principle of self-sufficiency for the nation, and formed the Korean Products Promotion Society, intended to encourage Koreans to buy home-produced goods and so instil a sense of nationalism. In August 1945, with Japanese surrender imminent, Cho was approached by the Japanese governor of Pyongyang and asked to organise a committee to maintain stability in the power vacuum that would inevitably follow. He agreed to co-operate, and formed governing councils throughout the north; they generally being composed of right-wing nationalists opposed to communism. The Soviet Union arrived in Pyongyang in th...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=10378746