Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front
The Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (AINDF) is a banned popular front organization in South Korea.
Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front 반제민족민주전선 Panjeminjong Minju Chŏnsŏn | |
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| Founder | Kim Jong-tae Choi Yong-do |
| Founded | 25 August 1969 |
| Headquarters | Seoul (de jure) Pyongyang (de facto) |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left[1][2] |
| Regional affiliation | Workers' Party of Korea |
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| Hangul | 반제민족민주전선 |
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| Hanja | 反帝民族民主戰線 |
| Revised Romanization | Banjeminjong Minju Jeonseon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Panjeminjong Minju Chŏnsŏn |
The AINDF is guided by Juche, the official state ideology of North Korea, and aims to carry out a popular revolution in South Korea, achieve independence by removing the United States Forces Korea, and hasten the reunification of the country. The AINDF is identical in organization to the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, the de jure popular front of North Korea, and has missions in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang (the only ostensibly South Korean organization to) and another in Japan.[3]
The AINDF is banned in South Korea under the National Security Law as a spy group for the Workers' Party of Korea, the ruling party of North Korea, but operates clandestinely within the country and is regarded as a legitimate organization by North Korea.
History
The Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front was officially founded on 25 August 1969 by Kim Jong-tae and Choi Yong-do as the Revolutionary Party for Reunification, with a history dating back to the 1964 formation of a preparatory committee. The group was established during the period of the Third Republic of Korea, an anti-communist military dictatorship under President Park Chung-hee, and both founders were executed along with other leaders of the organization; other members were sentenced to long prison terms. Kim Jong-tae's wife and two children were never seen again.
On 27 July 1985, it renamed itself to the National Democratic Front of South Korea (한국민족민주전선). It adopted its current name on 23 March 2005.
References
Citations
- 이진경 1989.
- "全南·全北·광주지역 대학총학생회의 북한 人權 운동 선언!". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). 10 August 1999. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- Boose 2003, p. 122.
Books
- Boose, Donald W. (2003). Recalibrating the U.S.-Republic of Korea alliance. DIANE Publishing. ISBN 9781428910706.
- 이진경, ed. (1989). 주체 사상 비판. 1. 벼리.