Kim Gu
Kim Gu (Hangeul 김구, Hanja 金九), born with Haeju on August 29th, 1876, dead on June 26th, 1949) is a resistant Korean to the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910-1945) and a South Korean politician . Its name of birth is Kim Chang-Known (Hangeul 김창수, Hanja 金昌洙), and he is largely known under the nickname of Baek Beom (Hangeul 백범, Hanja 白凡).
At eighteen years, it is one of the leaders of the revolt of the Tonghak in 1894, during which it at the height launches an attack against the Japanese soldiers of Haeju.
Engaging in the fight anti-Japanese woman, it takes part in the rising of March 1st, 1919 before being exiled in China and taking part in the Korean provisional government established in Shanghai. It was the sixth and last president of the Korean provisional government in exile.
During the Second world war, it engages at the sides of Allied the Army of release of Korea. Refusing the division of Korea after 1945, it holds a conference for the unification with Pyongyang with the future president North-Korean Kim It-sung. In 1948, it fails being elected president of the Republic against Syngman Rhee.
Kim was assassinated in 1949 at her office by Ahn Doo-hee. Ahn Doo-hee then acknowledged to have acted on order of the South Korean secret police. The CIA would also have been implied according to the Korean historian American Bang Sun Ju, who is based on a document of the American secret services déclassifié, without it being excluded that the murderer acted personally.
Kim Gu one of the rare Korean nationalists is respected as well in North Korea as in South Korea.
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