Guerrilla faction

The Guerilla faction, also known as the Manchurian faction, was a faction of the Workers' Party of Korea whose members were mostly guerrilla fighters active in Manchukuo and the Soviet Union against Japanese colonial rule in Korea. Its leaders were Pak Kum-chol and Kim Il Sung. In the 1950s and 1960s, Kim Il Sung used the August faction incident to eliminate the Yan'an faction, the Soviet faction, and the domestic faction. Afterwards, the guerrilla faction became the largest faction within the Workers' Party of Korea.