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Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front 反帝民族民主前線
Founder	Kim Jong-tae Choi Yong-do
Founded	25 August 1969 ; 54 years ago  ( 1969-08-25 )
Headquarters	Seoul ( de jure ) Pyongyang ( de facto )
Ideology	Kimilsungism?Kimjongilism Juche Songun
Political position	Far-left [1] [2]
Regional affiliation	Workers' Party of Korea
Website
www .aindft .com (down as of 19 January 2023)
Politics of South Korea Political parties Elections

The Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front ( AINDF ) is a banned popular front organization in South Korea .

The AINDF is guided by Juche , the official state ideology of North Korea , and aims to carry out a popular revolution in South Korea, achieve independence by removing the United States Forces Korea , and hasten the reunification of the country . The AINDF is identical in organization to the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea , the de jure popular front of North Korea, and has missions in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang (the only ostensibly South Korean organization to) and another in Japan . ^[3]

The AINDF is banned in South Korea under the National Security Law as a spy group for the Workers' Party of Korea , the ruling party of North Korea, but operates clandestinely within the country and is regarded as a legitimate organization by North Korea.

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The Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front was officially founded on 25 August 1969 by Kim Jong-tae ( 金鍾泰 , 金鍾泰 ), who published a magazine named Chongmaek ( 청맥 , 靑脈 ), and Choi Yong-do as the Revolutionary Party for Reunification ( 統一革命黨 , 統一革命黨 ), with a history dating back to the 1964 formation of a preparatory committee. The group was established during the period of the Third Republic of Korea , an anti-communist military dictatorship under President Park Chung Hee , 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 ( 韓國民族民主前線 ), and renamed its propaganda broadcasting station (that had a main station in Haeju ) from "Revolutionary Party for Reunification" ( 통혁당放送 , 統革黨放送 ) to "Voice of National Salvation" ( 救國의 放送 , 求國의 放送 ). ^[4] It adopted its current name on 23 March 2005. ^[5]

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• Official website (in Korean)
• English website Archived 24 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine