On April 13th 1950, just before the Korean War, Ri Ho-je, the leader of the Korean People's Guerrilla Army in North Korea, was killed in battle with a counterattack force from the South Korean military police, and his head was severed from his body.

　　On April 13th 1950, just before the Korean War, Ri Ho-je, the leader of the Korean People's Guerrilla Army in North Korea, was killed in battle with a police unit of the South Korean military. At that time, the head was decapitated from Yi Ho-je's corpse. In August 1949, Yi Ho-je's Korean People's Guerrilla Army incorporated a small-scale guerrilla unit in Odaesan, near the 38th parallel, and the guerrilla army became a force of about 400 men, invading Bonghyeonsan to the north of Gyeongju. Suppression by the ROK military police force. By around December 1949, Yi Ho-ji's Korean People's Guerrilla Army had collapsed.

　　In December 1945, at the beginning of the period of American military rule over the Korean Peninsula, Yi Ho-ji led the Cheongun as the chairman of the General Federation of Korean Youth Organizations in North Korea. Soon after that, he became active as a leader of the left-wing youth movement as the chairman of the Democratic Youth League of South Korea, the predecessor of the Socialist Youth League of North Korea. As left-wing activities became illegal in South Korea, he defected to North Korea and became the director of the Kangdong Political Academy, an agency for training agents.

　　The Kangdong Political Academy was an agency for training the Korean People's Guerrilla Army, which were North Korean agents, and became the military base of the South Korean Workers' Party. Lee Ho-ji participated in the Jeju April 3rd Incident, which broke out on April 3rd, 1948. In the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident, which broke out on October 19th 1948, the military rebelled and civilians were killed. In June 1949, Lee Ho-je led 360 or so guerrilla fighters trained at the Kangdong Political Academy, following orders from the Democratic Front for the Unification of the Fatherland in North Korea, and moved south along the Taebaek Mountains. They took in some of the military rebels from Yeosu and set up a base in the Odaesan area, close to the 38th parallel.