김기철의 통일운동 역정과 생애 = Kim Gi-Cheol's Journey of a Unification Movement and Life

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study set out to discuss Kim Gi-cheol that devoted his entire life to the unification movement as an active member of reformist parties such as the Progressive Party and the Socialist Party for the National Unification in the 1950s and 1960s. He began his political and social movements in a right-wing organization in his hometown of Hamheung, Hamgyeongnam Province right after the liberation of Korea and defected to South Korea in March, 1946 to avoid the suppression of the North Korean regime. Since then, he engaged in activities to set up a unified government in the Left-Right Coalition Committee and the National Independence Federation and participated in the South-North Joint Conference in 1948 in the process.
In 1952 in the middle of the Korean War, he joined the election polling committee formed to support Cho Pong-am that ran for a presidential election, forming his relations with Cho in full scale. When Cho and Seo Sang-il formed a reformist party in conjunction with reformist figures in 1955, he played an essential role to push the party forward and lavished his financial supports on it. After the formation of the Progressive Party, he devised his own unification plan that placed importance on international solutions for the issues of North and South Korea as the president of the Research Institute for Unification Issues. His plan was, however, used as a material to prove that the Progressive Party worked to benefit the nation's enemy by the prosecutors in the Progressive Party incident of 1958 and then as a pretext to cancel the registration of the Progressive Party by the authorities.
Individuals involved in the Progressive Party scattered around after Cho's death penalty, and Kim left the field of political and social movements temporarily. Once the progressive forces secured spaces and opportunities for their activities after the April Revolution, he resumed his political activities. As the progressive forces repeated the process of meeting and parting, his active involvement focused on unification issues in the Socialist Mass Party(preparatory committee for the party) and the Socialist Party for the National Unification. He also voiced his opinions with his neutralization-based unification plan that was a further detailed version of his old unification plan at various venues of public debates.
Kim received a prison sentence for his involvement in the Central Unification Socialist Party Incident at the revolutionary trial by the military regime after the May 16 military coup. After serving his sentence, he was released with a special pardon by the Third Republic founded in 1963. He then joined the New Democratic Party in 1971 and was put in charge of unification issues. Devoting almost his entire life to the issues of divided Korea and its unification after its liberation through his inquiry, research, and activity efforts, Kim Gi-cheol was oriented toward peace on the Korean Peninsula and the establishment of a democratic society.
(Kyungpook Natioanl University /[e-mail])

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