Korean Revolutionists And Liberation War In China’s Northeastern Region

This research focuses on the origin and early development of China-DPRK’s relations. From the recovery of the Korean peninsula on August 15,1945 to the outbreak of Korean War on June 25,1950, the situation of northeast Asia changing dramatically during these four years, the Chinese Communist Party and North Korea also gradually established the stable alliance relations.In the 1920s, a number of Korean revolutionists came to China to take part in Chinese revolution in order to realize the recovery of their motherland. Among these revolutionists, they were divided into "Yan-an Faction" and "Guerrilla Faction". In August 1945, after the surrender of Japan, part of the revolutionists returned to North Korea to establish the regime, while others continued to take part in the liberation war in northeast region of China under the leadership of Chinese Communist Party. During this period, they had established rear bases in inhabited areas of Chinese Koreans and formed a number of troops which consisted of Chinese Korean people. The Chinese Communist Party regarded those Korean revolutionists as "dual nationality ".After the liberation war, the Korean cadres led troops back to North Korea and merged with the people’s army in order to prepare for the unification of the Korean peninsula. In North Korea, after Kim Il-Sung and other cadres had established the regime, they offered a great deal of support to the Northeast Bureau of Chinese Communist Party which was struggling in the war of liberating Northeast China with the Kuomintang at that time. Throughout the Liberation War in Northeast China, a close contact was established between the two countries including personnel exchanges, material supplies. Especially during this time, North Korea helped China to the best of its ability. Its generosity paid off, the well-known traditional friendship between China and North Korea was the reward.This research starts with the relationship between Chinese and North Korea Communists during the Liberation War. With using local archives, the paper tries to probe into the whole process of establishing friendship between the two countries, which mainly contains the causes, the details and influences, in order to study the history of China-DPRK relations.