Pak Chang-ok
Pak Chang-ok in 1955
Vice Premier of the Cabinet
In office
23 March 1954  23 September 1956
PremierKim Il Sung
Chairman of the State Planning Commission
In office
23 March 1954  16 January 1956
PremierKim Il Sung
Preceded byChong Chun-taek
Succeeded byRi Jong-ok
Personal details
Born1896 (1896)
Onsong County, Joseon
Died1960 (aged 6364)
Pyongyang, North Korea
NationalityKorean
AliasChoe Chang-sok, Choe Chang-sun, Choe Tong-u, Ri Kon-u
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl
박창옥
Hancha
朴昌玉
Revised RomanizationBak Chang-ok
McCune–ReischauerPak Ch'ang-ok

Pak Chang-ok (Korean: 박창옥, 1896–1960) was a North Korean official and was a leader of the Soviet Korean faction of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK),[1] with members being mainly ethnic Koreans born in Soviet Union, after the suicide of their first leader, Ho Ka-i.

Pak was a member of the Central Committee of the WPK,[2] and the Chairman of the State Planning Commission. He was appointed Vice-Premier of North Korea in March 1954.[3]

Pak formed an alliance with Choe Chang-ik and the Yanan Korean faction of the party to criticize Kim Il Sung in 1956,[4] but was expelled following Kim's return from the Soviet Union. Pak died in 1960.[5]

References

Works cited

  • Armstrong, Charles K. (25 June 2013). Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-6893-3.
  • Lankov, Andrei N. (2002). "Kim Takes Control: The 'Great Purge' in North Korea, 1956-1960". Korean Studies. 26 (1): 87–119. doi:10.1353/ks.2002.0010. ISSN 1529-1529. S2CID 153356279.


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