Editing March First Movement (section)

=== North Korea ===
In North Korea, the event is taught as a turning point where the family of eight-year-old Kim Il Sung's took the lead of the independence movement.{{Sfn|Hart|2000|pp=153–154}}{{Sfn|Hart|2000|p=|pp=151–152}} The epicenter of the movement is taught as being Pyongyang instead of Seoul, and the contributions of figures who became influential in the later South Korean government are downplayed.{{Sfn|Hart|2000|pp=153–154}}<ref name="DailyNK 2006">{{Cite news |last=Han |first=Yeong-jin |date=28 February 2006 |title=Eight-year-old boy Kim Il Sung gathered the independence movement and travelled 30 li |url=https://www.dailynk.com/8%EC%84%B8-%EC%86%8C%EB%85%84-%EA%B9%80%EC%9D%BC%EC%84%B1-%EB%8F%85%EB%A6%BD%EB%A7%8C%EC%84%B8-%EC%99%B8%EC%B9%98%EB%A9%B0-30/ |access-date=8 March 2023 |work=[[Daily NK]] |archive-date=March 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308213250/https://www.dailynk.com/8%EC%84%B8-%EC%86%8C%EB%85%84-%EA%B9%80%EC%9D%BC%EC%84%B1-%EB%8F%85%EB%A6%BD%EB%A7%8C%EC%84%B8-%EC%99%B8%EC%B9%98%EB%A9%B0-30/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The thirty-three national representatives are described as having surrendered immediately after reading their declaration.<ref name="DailyNK 2006" /> Hart printed this translated excerpt from ''[[Chosŏn Ryŏksa]]'', a North Korean history textbook used from 1984 to 1990:{{Sfn|Hart|2000|p=144; 154}}

{{Blockquote|text=Under the leadership of the great and passionate anti-Japanese revolutionary Kang Jin Sok [the older brother of Kim II Sung's mother], the shout of "Long live Korean independence" spread like a wave throughout the country. From the outset the struggle had the characteristics of a riot and spread. At this time, our great and beloved leader Kim II Sung, who was eight years old, participated in the anti-Japanese demonstration and traveled to Bongťongdae Gate, which was about 30 li away.{{sfn|Hart|2000|p=154}}}}

While scholars in both the South and North are in relative consensus that the movement was unlikely to result in Korea's prompt liberation, North Korean textbooks reportedly argue that the movement failed because it lacked Kim's central leadership.{{Sfn|Hart|2000|p=154}}<ref name="DailyNK 2006" />