On June 25, 1950, the Korean War broke out, a tragedy of the fratricidal war that left Korea as the world's only divided country. At that time, after liberation, North Korea began to take power with Kim Il-sung, who was preparing for spy activities in the 88th Brigade of the Soviet Union. In addition, the North Korean People's Army, which completed its military expansion with full support from the Soviet Union, launched a full invasion on June 25. From 1949 to June 1950, North Korea received 10 reconnaissance planes, 100 yak fighters, 70 bomber planes, 100 T-34 and T-70 tanks from the Soviet Union, and returned Korean soldiers who participated in the Civil War from the Chinese, increasing the number of North Korean troops to 135,000. However, at that time, South Korea was not making practical efforts to strengthen its military power. Rhee Syng-man, then president of South Korea, and Shin Sung-mo, former Minister of National Defense, only boasted that they could enter Pyongyang within three days of the war, but no actual strengthening of military power was achieved. In addition, in fact, the founding army's ideology should not have been military action between its own people, but should have always been strengthening its military power in preparation for invasion from outside. However, in both respects, the ROK military at the time did not have the power to avoid the Korean War, or at least reduce the damage, even if it failed to prevent the war. In addition, the United States even opposed the strengthening of military power in order not to stimulate the Soviet Union, rather than trying to strengthen South Korea's military power. General Wedmeyer and General MacArthur of the Far East Command, who were in a decisive position on the military strategic position of the Korean Peninsula at the time, generally negatively evaluate Korea's strategic value, and judge that war will not occur in Korea is enough and South Korea's military strength will be strengthened. During the start of the Korean War, South Korea had about 50,000 troops and only about 27 M1 rifles of the U.S. military, 99-type consecutive rifles of the Japanese military, and game guns and M-8-type armored vehicles. With this, it was not possible to counter North Korea's invasion at all. However, the weakening of military power, which was concerned about the invasion of the Soviet Union and North Korea, led to an immediate North Korean invasion, which is due to the simple reason that weak defense cannot defend against strong military power. "President Lee Seung-man didn't listen to me and eventually things happened." At the time of the war, the dynamics of power were so imbalanced that Ji Cheong-cheon was indifferent to the laziness of the Rhee Syng-man regime, who was negligent in forming and maintaining perfect defense power. He accompanied the attendant and went near Mia-ri, Seoul, and inspected the war situation. After feeling that the situation was unusual, he immediately went to the Army headquarters and asked General Chae Byung-deok, the Army Chief of Staff, to concentrate on the battle and defend. In addition, he went to Suwon in time for the National Assembly's night emergency meeting, but Suwon was already judged to be dangerous, so the administration and the National Assembly had already moved to Daejeon. Accordingly, Ji Cheong-cheon did not act with the administration and the National Assembly, but went around various parts of the country such as Jeolla-do and Gyeongsang-do. It was to encourage the nationwide people to fight in view of the current war situation. However, the military power of South Korea was too inferior to that of the North Korean People's Army. Eventually, not long after the war opened, the government had no choice but to move to Busan, and the front gradually retreated to the Nakdonggang River area. Jicheongcheon was forced to move to Busan and continued its activities within the government and the National Assembly. Meanwhile, Ji Cheong-cheon insisted on the unity of political parties based on nationalism in consideration of the wartime situation as the representative supreme council member of the Democratic People's Party and the chairman of the Central Supreme Council. In October 1951, General Ji Cheong-cheon was appointed as the highest member along with Kim Sung-soo, Shin Ik-hee, and Baek Nam-hoon at the 2nd Congress of the Democratic People's Party, and was appointed chairman of the Central Supreme Council at the 1st Central Standing Executive Committee. Paik Nam-hoon was appointed chairman of the Central Standing Committee, Kim Sung-soo was appointed chairman of the Central Executive Committee, and Shin Ik-hee was appointed chairman of the delegates' meeting. On October 18, Ji Cheong-cheon, along with Shin Ik-hee and Cho Byung-ok, proposed a founding strategy to practice the national salvation by establishing a democratic unification party to counter communism by dividing the forces of each party outside the floor. In other words, in the situation of a national crisis, unity beyond the ruling and opposition parties is needed. The founding strategy of Ji Cheong-cheon was unanimously passed at this meeting and decided to unite the democratic and nationalist camps. As a result of reorganizing the organization in December, Ji Cheong-cheon was appointed as the chairman of the delegates' meeting, Shin Ik-hee as the chairman of the Supreme Committee, Kim Sung-soo as the chairman of the standing executive committee, Paik Nam-hoon as the chairman of the central executive committee, and Cho Byung-ok as secretary-general. Meanwhile, by 1952, the actual virtues of the Syngman Rhee administration were accumulated, and a constitutional amendment bill to the State Council's responsibility system was finally submitted. Here, 123 members of the National Assembly signed and sealed, and each political party in the National Assembly expressed a unified view of the future of the state from the patriotic thoughts. However, the government came out in a tough response to the constitutional amendment movement in the National Assembly in May 1952, replacing the Minister of Interior, conducting a control demonstration, and attaching three or four detectives to the National Assembly to monitor their actions. Ji Cheong-cheon was angry at the government's attitude and commanded the detective. "The whole world knows that I devoted my body and heart to the independence movement for three or four years for the country and competition, and if the Minister of Home Affairs wants to monitor or arrest me, come and tell him to do it himself!" The detectives returned without saying anything. Meanwhile, in the midst of this, a presidential sniper incident involving a member of the Democratic People's Party occurred. Ji Cheong-cheon, who insisted on unity in consideration of the war, withdrew from the Democratic People's Party because he could not accept the fact that opposition lawmakers were involved in shooting a head of a country. Afterwards, Ji Cheong-cheon joined the Liberal Party at the request of people from Daedong Youth Corps and the Korea Independence Party, pleading for guidance. Of course, the main reason was that during the Korean War, both the ruling and opposition parties needed to unite to support the current regime and the public, who had vast local organizations but could not unite due to lack of leaders, eagerly begged for the guidance of Ji Cheong-cheon. In addition, the move was aimed at correcting what was wrong within the government and ruling parties to deal with the internally chaotic political situation. Ji Cheong-cheon criticized that he would express his opinions and criticize President Syngman Rhee's policy for going wrong alone. So at that time, Jicheongcheon was the only person who protested against the wrong policy by punching his desk alone with Rhee Syng-man. So it is said that at that time, people close to Syngman Rhee avoided it by saying, "General Ji is a scary person." However, General Ji Cheong-cheon was suffering from considerable illness at that time. After raising the banner of the armed anti-Japanese struggle and exile to Manchuria early on, he traveled through rough areas such as Manchuria, Siberia, and the Middle East, and struggled to build a strong country. It is difficult to distinguish how many other nights were built after overcoming the crisis of death over the past 30 years, fighting several battles, and for the unity of anti-Japanese forces. Moreover, after liberation, Ji Cheong-cheon's health, looking at the 70-year-old age, was now reaching its limit as he only slept for about three hours a day during the founding process. The reasons for not running for the 3rd National Assembly election in 1954 included health problems, inability to tolerate the conspiracy nature of politics so far due to Ji Cheong-cheon's unmanned nature, and taking this opportunity to give his juniors an opportunity to realize democratic politics. However, poor addition further plagued Ji Cheong-cheon's mind and body, which led to his death on January 15, 1957, without seeing the desired reunification of the two Koreas and the sovereignty of his country internationally approved. He was 70 years old in the next year. Born at the end of the Joseon Dynasty, realizing that the nation with weak defense power was violated by foreign enemies, he learned modern military tactics in his enemy Japan, crossed the Yalu River to achieve independence, and fled to Manchuria. General Ji Cheongcheon. The life of a true soldier who lived through the turbulent times of Korean history ended like this. The government honored the achievements of the deceased by honoring the president of the Order of Merit for National Foundation in 1962, and the Liberation Society established a monument at the Independence Hall in 1988 and General Baeksan Jicheongcheon attacked Korean soldiers on June 30, 1933.
In 1933, the Korean government built a temporary government graveyard in the National Cemetery to promote the national spirit, and in April 1944, the Cheonmyo burial ceremony was held from Suyuri National Cemetery to Dongjak-dong National Cemetery and buried next to comrades of the anti-Japanese independence movement. The prosperity and failure of the country is the responsibility of all the people. All men and women of all ages must work together to fight against the enemy that violates our survival. Independence is not what others give us, but what we have to fight for ourselves. Let's work together. There is only one way to live.'
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