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The August faction incident (Korean: 8월 종파 사건), officially called the "Second Arduous March", [1] was an attempted removal of Kim Il Sung from power by leading North Korean figures from the Soviet-Korean faction and the Yan'an faction, with support from the Soviet Union and China, at the 2nd Plenary Session of the 3rd Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 1956.
Kim Jong Il's name was mentioned in public documents, possibly for the first time, indicating that he was already on his way to being the heir-apparent to Kim Il Sung. [34] Six months after the purge, at an unscheduled meeting of the party, Kim Il Sung called for loyalty in the film industry that had betrayed him with An Act of Sincerity.
During the purges of the Minsaengdan incident, Kim Il Sung sezied and burned the suspect files of the Purge Committee. [2]: 65–66 Kim's memoirs - and those of the guerillas who fought alongside him - cite Kim's seizing and burning the suspect files of the Purge Committee as key to solidifying his leadership.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 January 2025. Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994 In this Korean name, the family name is Kim. Eternal President Kim Il Sung 김일성 Official portrait, 1966 General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea In office 12 October 1966 – 8 July 1994 Secretary See list Choe Yong-gon Kim Il Pak Kum ...
Kim Il Sung also attacked the leadership of the Yanan faction. When the North Koreans were driven to the Chinese border, Kim Il Sung needed a scapegoat to explain the military disaster and blamed Mu Chong, a leader of the Yanan faction and also a leader of the North Korean military. Mu Chong and a number of other military leaders were expelled ...
The plenum in August became known as the August Faction Incident as Kim Il Sung's opponents unsuccessfully tried to oust him. It was followed by another plenum in September that saw Kim being pressured by China and the Soviet Union to tone down his political line. [1] Kim, however, retaliated by beginning the purge of his party's Soviet faction ...
The term "Arduous March" or "March of Suffering" became the official metaphor for the famine following a state propaganda campaign in 1993. The Rodong Sinmun urged the North Korean citizenry to invoke the memory of a propaganda fable from Kim Il Sung's time as a commander of a small group of anti-Japanese guerrilla fighters.
After the March 5, 1953 death of Joseph Stalin, Kim increased his opposition of Soviet influence in North Korea. Tensions between the pro-Kim and pro-Soviet factions grew, culminating in the failed 1957 August Faction Incident, in which Soviet- and Chinese-aligned Koreans tried to purge Kim Il Sung. Chŏng was allegedly among Kim's most ...