Homecoming
After the Japanese capitulation in 1945 and Korea was liberated, Kim Chang-Ryong came back to his hometown Hamheung, then under Soviet occupation. Wanted by the Communists for being a former Japanese soldier, he had to keep a low profile. Around the end of 1945, he apparently visited friend and former assistant Kim Yun-Won (金允元) in Chorwon who sold him out, following which he was sentenced to death for "anti-Korean deeds", i.e. arresting anti-Japanese combatants. But as Kim was being transferred to the place of his execution, he managed to jump off the truck transporting him and escaped to a relative's house. Recovering from his wounds, he lay in wait for the right time to flee to the American-controlled South but was once more betrayed and captured by the Communists, who subsequently sentenced him to death a second time. However Kim again managed to break loose, knocking out the soldier guarding him with a chair, and escaped South.
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