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Documents verifying that lawmaker Kim Hee-sun¡¯s father was a special operative with the Yuha Police Department of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
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It has been confirmed that the father of Uri Party lawmaker Kim Hee-sun, who has called herself the ¡°Daughter of the Independence Army,¡± was in fact a special operative with the Yuha Police Department of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo who was tasked with catching independence fighters, reported the November edition of the Monthly Chosun that was published Sunday.
Kim Il-lyun, Kim Hee-sun¡¯s father, was born in 1919 and lived in colonial era Yuha, Manchukuo, and took the Japanese name Kaneyama Eiichi, revealed a sibling of his in a recent interview. The Monthly Chosun requested records of a Kaneyama Eiichi from the current Public Security Bureau in Yuha, to which the bureau replied in an official document that a certain Kaneyama Eiichi, who was born in 1919, was tasked with special operations for Manchukuo¡¯s Yuha police station¡¯s police affairs and special operations branches.
Rep. Kim has called herself the ¡°Daughter of an Independence Activist,¡± led the ¡°Lawmakers for Setting Right the National Spirit¡± and stood at the forefront of legislating and revising laws to look into colonial-era pro-Japanese activities. She strongly denied reports in the last edition of the Monthly Chosun that citied testimony claiming her father had worked as a police officer in Manchukuo.
(Oh Dong-nyong, gomsi@chosun.com )
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