ABSTRACT
T HE SPLIT between the Nationalists and the Communists in China in 1926 had led to a similar division among the members
of the Provisional Government in Shanghai, which virtually ceased to function. The moderates under Kim Kyu-sik continued to work for unity, but as fast as a new 'United Front' could be put together fresh rifts appeared and the difficulties of the distances across the Pacific, and across Russia, where the Korean forces were now divided between bases at Khabarovsk, north of Vladivostok and at Irkutsk, on the far side of Lake Baikal, the lack of finance, the multiplicity of double agents and the fanaticism of the political extremes all worked against them. In April 1941 co-ordination between nine separate non-Communist groups was organized into a Provisional Government under Kim Ku and Kim Kyu-sik, and at the same time the non-Communist military forces were brought together under General Yi P m-s k, who had served under Kim Chwa-jin.
