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.[citation needed] Pak died in 1960.[5]
References
- ^ Armstrong 2013, p. 79.
- ^ Armstrong 2013, p. 69.
- ^ Armstrong 2013, p. 62.
- ^ Lankov 2002, p. 90.
- ^ 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.
- 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.