Pak Chang-ok

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

Pak Chang-ok
Pak Chang-ok in 1955
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl	박창옥
Hancha	朴昌玉
Revised Romanization	Bak Chang-ok
McCune–Reischauer	Pak Ch'ang-ok

Pak was a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (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 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

1. Armstrong 2013, p. 79.
2. Armstrong 2013, p. 69.
3. Armstrong 2013, p. 62.
4. Lankov 2002, p. 90.
5. Armstrong 2013, p. 130.

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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)