1929 -- Manchuria: The Korean anarchist guerilla general Kim Jwa-Jin (sometimes called the Korean Makhno) is assassinated while doing repair work on a rice mill. The Korean Anarchist Federation in China was formed in April 1924. Over 2 millon Koreans were living in Manchuria, & the Korean anarchists were active & influential among them. By 1928 the spread of libertarian politics allowed the Korean Anarchists to organise the Eastern Anarchist Federation with comrades from China, Vietnam, Taiwan & Japan -- which published a bulletin, Dong-Bang (The East). From late 1930 on, the Japanese were attacking in waves from the South, & the Stalinists, supported by the USSR, from the North. As the anarchists grew in numbers & support the Stalinists & the pro-Japanese elements in Manchuria felt their own power bases threatened. In early 1931 the Stalinists sent assassination & kidnapping teams into the anarchist zone to murder leading activists, figuring that if they wiped out the KAFM the KAPM would wither & die. By the summer of 1931 many leading anarchists were dead & the war on two fronts was devastating the region. See Ha Ki-Rak's A History of the Korean Anarchist Movement (Korean Anarchist Federation, 1986). Unfortunately it is chronologically confusing. http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/worldwidemovements/koreahis.html The text of a talk presented by Alan MacSimoin provides some context, http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/talks/korea.html
