Early Life
Kim Chang-Ryong was born presumably in 1920 to a poor peasant family in South Hamgyong Province, during the period of Japanese rule and like many other young Koreans at that time enrolled in the Japanese army in Manchuria. At first an MP (Military Police), he soon became a reputed detective, whose job it was to uncover moles in the Japanese intelligence service and to hunt resistance activists. In 1941, Kim cunningly assumed the appearance of a beggar in order to get close to Wang Gunlai (王近禮), an infamous Chinese spy master. After gaining the latter's trust, having himself intentionally arrested several times in the process, he was able to gather intelligence allowing the Japanese military to neutralize a spy network of about 60 agents from the Soviet Union.
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