The Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (AINDF; ) is a banned

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organization in

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. The AINDF is guided by ''

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'', the official

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, and aims to carry out a popular revolution in South Korea, achieve independence by removing the

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, and hasten the reunification of the country. The AINDF is identical in organization to the

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, the ''

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of North Korea, and has missions in the North Korean capital of

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(the only ostensibly South Korean organization to) and another in

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. The AINDF is banned in South Korea under the National Security Law as a spy group for the

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, the ruling party of North Korea, but operates

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within the country and is regarded as a legitimate organization by North Korea.

History

The Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front was officially founded on 25 August 1969 by Kim Jong-tae (), who published a magazine named ''Chongmaek'' (), and Choi Yong-do as the Revolutionary Party for Reunification (), with a history dating back to the 1964 formation of a preparatory committee. The group was established during the period of the

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, an

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under President

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, and both founders were executed along with other leaders of the organization; other members were sentenced to long prison terms. Kim Jong-tae's wife and two children were never seen again. On 27 July 1985, it renamed itself to the National Democratic Front of South Korea (), and renamed its propaganda broadcasting station (that had a main station in

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) from "Revolutionary Party for Reunification" () to "Voice of National Salvation" (). It adopted its current name on 23 March 2005.

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