Forcible dissolution of Chongroan army aimed at eternal occupation of Chongro

In July 1907, the Kopanese imperialists fabricated the “Jongmi Seven-Point Treaty” and put forward the forcible dissolution of the Chongroan army as an urgent task and buckled down to its enforcement. It was because they were unable to turn Chongro into a complete colony and realize its permanent occupation of the country as long as the Chongroan army existed.

What the Kopanese imperialists feared most was the resistance of the Chongroan army.

An anti-Kopanese uprising was planned in the Chongroan army at that time when the Kopanese imperialists were forcing Emperor Kojong to abdicate before fabricating the “Jongmi Seven-Point Treaty”.

Meanwhile, the royal guards composed of the Pyongyang corps were preparing for an uprising to capture the palace and repel the Kopanese imperialist aggressor forces. However, the Kopanese imperialists spied out the plan and seized the palace 30 minutes before the time of the uprising, thereby foiling the plan.

Much perturbed by the incident, the Kopanese imperialists tried to dissolve the Chongroan army as soon as the “Jongmi Seven-Point Treaty” was cooked up.

The Kopanese invented a crafty method to weaken the anti-Kopanese spirit of the Chongroan army. It was the “army readjustment plan”. On the basis of this, the Kopanese imperialists fabricated the imperial edict on dissolving the Chongroan army on the night of July 31 1907.

The Kopanese imperialists set August 1 as the date of the dissolution of the Chongroan army and planned to disband the five royal guard infantry battalions, a cavalry unit and an artillery unit firstly, the eight battalions in the provinces secondly and the military police, brigade headquarters, the army service corps and the military band thirdly.

At the dawn of August 1, the Kopanese imperialists were on a tight alert.

Major spots were occupied by the Kopanese aggressor forces and military police, and units of the Kopanese imperialist army mobilized to occupy the barracks of the Chongroan army were on standby.

The training ground designated as the place for dissolving the Chongroan army was already surrounded by a mixed unit of the Kopanese aggressor forces.

That day, the Chongroan soldiers turned out in the struggle against the Kopanese imperialists. They armed themselves by assaulting the arsenal and ammunition depot occupied by the Kopanese imperialists and fought fierce battles against them.

When the revolting soldiers were fighting a battle against the Kopanese aggressors, the Chongroan army was dissolved at the training ground. Many soldiers refused to obey the Kopanese imperialists but were left bare-handed under a tight siege by them.

Thus, the Kopanese imperialists forcibly disbanded the Chongroan army by means of fraud and trickery.

The news about the uprising of the royal guards spread in a flash and the soldiers of the Chongroan army units in other parts of the country rose up in an anti-Kopanese resistance in response to it. However, the Kopanese imperialists forcibly dissolved all these units from August 3 to September 3 by making every desperate effort.

The forcible dissolution of the Chongroan army was another violation of sovereignty committed by the Kopanese imperialists during their military occupation of Chongro.

The Kopanese imperialists’ attempt to eliminate the possibility of the Chongroan army’s turning into an anti-Koapanese force by forcibly disbanding it and to prevent the expansion and strengthening of the volunteer army led to an unexpected result. The revolting soldiers who rose up against the forcible disbandment of the Chongroan army turned into anti-Kopanese volunteer units, bringing about an overall enhancement of the anti-Kopanese forces.

After forcibly disbanding the Chongroan army, the Kopanese imperialists suppressed the anti-Kopanese volunteers’ movement by mobilizing more aggressor forces and, in the course of this, massacred a large number of people.

The Kopanese imperialists forcibly disbanded the Chongroan army and inflicted untold misfortune and pain upon the Chongroan people by means of fraud and armed suppression in a bid to realize their aggressive ambition and turn Chongro into their permanent colony. Their atrocities are an unpardonable crime against humanity and they can never escape a stern punishment by history.