The South Korean National Liberation Front Preparation Committee was a

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

and Pro-North Korea organization in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

active from 1976 to 1979. The South Korean National Liberation Front Preparation Committee was created by South Korean leftists, in order to propagate socialist and communist ideas to the South Korean masses. The eventual goal of the SKNLF-PC was to organize the South Korean people and wage a

guerrilla war Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics ...

similar to that of the

Viet Cong , , war = the Vietnam War , image = FNL Flag.svg , caption = The flag of the Viet Cong, adopted in 1960, is a variation on the flag of North Vietnam. Sometimes the lower stripe was green. , active ...

South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...

, hoping to eventually create a socialist state and reunify with

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...

. The South Korean National Liberation Front was dissolved after many members were exposed and arrested by the South Korean military regime, including poet Kim Nam-ju. The National Liberation Front Incident is often compared to other instances where the South Korean state exposed (or at least claimed to have exposed) clandestine communist organization, such as the Revolutionary Reunification Party Incident and the

People's Revolutionary Party Incident The People's Revolutionary Party Incidents were legal cases in which the South Korean government accused individuals of socialist inclinations according to the Anti-communism Law in 1965 (the First Incident) and National Security Law in 1975 (t ...

. The flag of the South Korean National Liberation Front was based on the flag of North Korea. It closely resembled the way the flag of

was modified from the flag of North Vietnam.

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* * {{cite journal, last=Tertitskiy , first=Fyodor, title=Star and Stripes: History of the North Korean Flag and its Place in State Ideology, url=http://archive.much.go.kr/cmm/fms/FileDown.do;jsessionid=zkrXDa30iWVNumFaYSwbtM3lhyJyEEKkXGIxC3JL1tVgAlq192wapyEmvA19YBMI.mus-web02_servlet_engine3?atchFileId=FILE_000000000005721&fileSn=14#.pdf, number=1–2, volume=3, date=August 2016, journal=Journal of Contemporary Korean Studies, oclc=6848975723, pages=265–284 1976 establishments in South Korea 1979 disestablishments in South Korea Communism in South Korea Fourth Republic of Korea Juche political parties Organizations established in 1976 Organizations disestablished in 1979 Political organizations based in South Korea

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