Kapsan Faction Incident
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Kapsan Faction Incident
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The Kapsan Faction Incident was an unsuccessful attempt to undermine the power of Kim Il Sung, the leader of North Korea, around the year 1967. The "Kapsan faction" was a group of veterans of the anti-Japanese struggle of the 1930s and 1940s that was initially close to Kim Il Sung. In the wake of the 2nd Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 1966, the faction sought to introduce economic reforms, challenge Kim Il-sung's cult of personality, and appoint its ringleader Pak Kum-chol a
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1967 failed resistance in North Korea
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapsan_Faction_Incident
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2024-03-09T04:18:55Z
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