Social:Juchesasangpa

Korean name
Hangul	주체사상파, 주사파
Hanja	主體思想派, 主思派
Revised Romanization	Juchesasangpa, Jusapa
McCune–Reischauer	Chuch'esasangpa

Juchesasangpa or Jusapa was a minor movement in South Korea that supported the North Korean political ideology known as Juche.

History

Background

After the division of the Korean peninsula and the Korean war, most of the left political groups went underground However, as the oppression of democratic protests and the fall of the "spring of seoul" in the 1980s as a result of the rise of the reign of military general Chun Doo-hwan made fervors grim, the influx of juche ideology occurred. Also the dominance of jusapa became apparent after a fight between groups with different directions.

Origin

The movement started around early 1986 among the Undongkwon participating in student movements and labor movements. A book written by Kim Young-hwan (activist, born 1963) (ko) called "The Letter of One Labor Activist Sending to All Our Fellow Young Students" with the pseudonym "Kang Chol", also known as "kangcholsoshin" (강철서신),was considered as the textbook of the movement among participants. The movement was also called "NL-pa" because it emphasized "national liberation" (NL) of South Korea based on the theory of North Korean revolution called "The Theory of Revolution of People's Democracy and National Liberation" (민족해방 민중민주주의혁명론), however the word NL-pa can also mean groups who did not accept juche ideology but with the same perception that the people of South Korea should be liberated.

Fall of communism and its subsequent decline

The anti-communist laws in South Korea have had—and continue to have—a negative effect on the perception of Juche ideology in South Korea. However, after constitutional democracy was established after mass demonstrations in 1987, the focus of the movement shifted to movements encouraging the unification of the two Koreas, which led to "the committee of student representatives from all parts of the country"(Jeongukdaehaksaengdaepyojahyopuihoe, often shortened to jeondaehyop) send representatives to the "korean nation festival(한민족 축전)" in 1987, Pyongyang hosted by North Korea. After the fall of the Soviet Union, death of Kim Il-sung and the news reports of famines in North Korea in 1995, the movement faced subsequent decline. However, in 1994, Park Hong, who was the president of Sogang University at the time held a press conference claiming North Korea is running a terrorist organization in schools which he quoted jusapas and sanomaeng(the alliance for labor democracy) as examples, which renewed interest in the movement. The statement was made in the context of incidents of students being arrested for making a place to mourn for the death of Kim Il Sung.

Criticism

Certain leftist movements in South Korea are often referred to as "chinbuk" (Korean: 친북; Hanja: 親北; lit. pro-North), "Jongbuk" (Korean: 종북; Hanja: 從北; lit. pursuant to North) and "Jusapa" (Juche proponent) by Korean conservatives, anti-communists and others critical of the North. This perception is reinforced by cases such as Lim Su-kyung's, best known for attending the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in North Korea and praising President of North Korea Kim Il Sung in 1989, without first obtaining permission from the South Korean government. She attended the festival representing the student organization Jeondaehyop, now known as Hanchongryun, who in April 2012 was elected as a member of the 19th National Assembly as the Democratic United Party's 21st proportional representative. In June 2012, in a confrontation with a North Korean defector in a bar, Lim hurled insults and referred to a ruling party lawmaker as a "son-of-a-bitch betrayer" and another as a "traitor" in what has been described by Korea JoonAng Daily as "an alcohol-fueled tirade at a Seoul restaurant", questioning their legitimacy to challenge her as a lawmaker. This led to public protests.

See also

• Juche
• McCarthyism
• National Security Act
• NL-pa(activist group) (In Korean)

External links

• (in Korean) 북 관련 글 퍼나르고 올린 죄…세상은 날 ‘간첩’으로 몰았다
• (in Korean) 평범했던 그들은 왜 ‘김정일 만세’를 외치게 됐나