조선공산당의 탁치 노선 변화 과정 (1945~1946)

The Dynamic Process of Korean Communist Party’s Attitude Toward Trusteeship, 1945~1946

Korean leftists took an anti-trusteeship line from October 1945. Korean Communist Party(KCP) changed its attitude toward trusteeship issue in the beginning of 1946. Its new line was a pro-Moscow agreement of December 1945. Rightists had maintained a consistent policy of the anti-trusteeship line since October 1945. So the heated controversy between left and right became an origin of the division of Korea. On receiving the news that the Soviet supported the Korean trusteeship while the American favored the direct independence of Korea on the 27th of December 1945, the KCP central committee’s leaders withheld an official announcement about trusteeship issue. But the report proved false during the last ten days of January 1946, the majority of Koreans had already had an anti-trusteeship and ani-Soviet sentiment. The rightists, especially Kim Ku’s Korean Provisional Government(KPG) took the initiative and carried out a coup d’etat against the US Military Government in Korea(USAMGIK) in the beginning of 1946. KPG’s opposition resulted in failure because of America’s power. In the meanwhile the Soviet authority in North Korea persuaded Park Hun Young, KCP chairman, to change the attitude about trusteeship. After a complicated consideration, KCP converted its trusteeship line in order to hold hegemony standing against KPG. Kim Il Sung’s North Korean KCP faction had a relatively continuing line in the trusteeship issue. So North Korean KCP began to dominate South Korean communists.