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Vice Premier Of North Korea
The Vice Premier of the Cabinet assists the Premier of North Korea in guiding the work of the Cabinet of North Korea. The office is also alternatively known as Deputy Prime Minister of North Korea. First Vice Premier The First Vice Premier of the Cabinet is the designation for the most senior Vice Premier. Vice Premier of North Korea The Premier is represented by a number of vice premiers, who act as a high-ranking executive assistant to the Premier. See also * Prime Minister of Imperial Korea (1895–1910) * Government of North Korea * List of leaders of North Korea *List of heads of state of North Korea * President of North Korea *Eternal President of the Republic *Politics of North Korea The politics of North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) takes place within the framework of the official state philosophy, Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. ''Juche'', which is a part of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, i ... References {{Supreme Peopl ...
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Naenara
Naenara () is the official web portal of the North Korean government. It was the first website in North Korea, and was created in 1996. The portal's categories include politics, tourism, music, foreign trade, arts, press, information technology, history, and "Korea is One". The website carries publications such as '' The Pyongyang Times'', ' magazine, '' Korea Today'' magazine and ''Foreign Trade'' magazine along with Korean Central News Agency news. South Korean users' access to the site has been blocked by South Korean authorities since 2011 and the website remained blocked. See also * Censorship in North Korea * Chollima (website) *Internet in North Korea Internet access is available in North Korea, but is only permitted with special authorization. It is primarily used for government purposes, and also by foreigners. The country has some broadband infrastructure, including fiber optic links betw ... * List of North Korean websites banned in South Korea * Red Star OS ...
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Workers' Party Of South Korea
The Workers' Party of South Korea ( ko, 남조선로동당) was a communist party in South Korea from 1946 to 1949. It was founded on 23 November 1946 through the merger of the Communist Party of South Korea, New People's Party of Korea and a faction of the People's Party of Korea (the so-called 'forty-eighters'). It was led by Ho Hon. The party was outlawed by the U.S. occupation authorities due to the party being an aggravating opposition to South Korea and the US, but the party organized a network of clandestine cells and was able to obtain a considerable following. It had around 360,000 party members. In 1947, the party initiated armed guerrilla struggle. As the persecution of party intensified, large sections of the party leadership moved to Pyongyang. The party was opposed to the formation of a South Korean state. In February–March 1948, it instigated general strikes in opposition to the plans to create a separate South Korean state. On 3 April 1948, the party led a ...
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Pak Ui-wan
Pak Ui-wan ( ko, 박의완 was a North Korean politician who served as a Vice Premier of North Korea and member of the Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's unicameral parliament until he was purged in 1958. Biography Born September 19, 1911, in Japanese-controlled Korea, with family moved to the Russian Empire and became Koryo-saram. Some say that his name Ui-wan was changed from Russian Ivan, and some say that his original name was Ui-wan. After the Russian Revolution, he worked as a secretary for the Soviet Youth League. After graduating from the Rostov State University of Railways, he married Alexandra Lee, a Korean. On June 22, 1937 their son Yuri was born, and Alexandra died in 1938. When the forced migration of Koreans began, Pak Ui-wan was forcibly relocated to the Uzbek SSR. He later remarried a Russian woman named Natalia Gorbatova. Then, after the defeat of the Japanese Empire, he was sent to North Korea under Stalin's instructions. Arriving in December 1945 ...
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Pak Chang-ok
Pak Chang-ok (, 1896–1960) was a North Korean official and was a leader of the Soviet Korean faction of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), 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, and the Chairman of the State Planning Commission. He was appointed Vice-Premier of North Korea in March 1954. Pak formed an alliance Choe Chang-ik and the Yanan Korean faction of the party to criticize Kim Il-sung in 1956, but was expelled following Kim's return from the Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa .... Pak died in 1960. References Works cited * * 1960 deaths Date of birth missing Date of death missing Vice Chairmen of the Workers' ...
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Jong Jun-thaek
Jong Jun-thaek ( ko, 정준택, 1911 – January 11, 1973) was a North Korean politician and public official who served as Vice Premier of North Korea and member of the Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's unicameral parliament. Biography Following his studies, he worked as a mine manager. Jong joined the Workers' Party of Korea in 1946, and in 1947 was appointed as the director of the North Korean People's Committee and the representative of the Korean People's Assembly (the predecessor of the Supreme People's Assembly) in South Hamgyong Province. He served as the first Chairman of the National Planning Commission of North Korea in 1948 and the Vice Prime Minister. In 1957, he was re-elected as deputy member of the Supreme People's Assembly. In 1958, he was awarded the first class Order of the National Flag. In 1962, he once again became a representative of the Supreme People's Assembly. He was elected Chairman State Planning Commission in the North Korean Cabinet in S ...
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Chong Chun-taek (cropped, Grayscale)
Jong Jun-thaek ( ko, 정준택, 1911 – January 11, 1973) was a North Korean politician and public official who served as Vice Premier of North Korea and member of the Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's unicameral parliament. Biography Following his studies, he worked as a mine manager. Jong joined the Workers' Party of Korea in 1946, and in 1947 was appointed as the director of the North Korean People's Committee and the representative of the Korean People's Assembly (the predecessor of the Supreme People's Assembly) in South Hamgyong Province. He served as the first Chairman of the National Planning Commission of North Korea in 1948 and the Vice Prime Minister. In 1957, he was re-elected as deputy member of the Supreme People's Assembly. In 1958, he was awarded the first class Order of the National Flag. In 1962, he once again became a representative of the Supreme People's Assembly. He was elected Chairman State Planning Commission in the North Korean Cabinet in S ...
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Choe Chang-ik
Choe Chang-ik (, 1896 – 1960) was a Korean politician in the Japanese colonial era. He was a member of the Korean independence movement. He was also known by the names Choe Chang-sok (최창석, 崔昌錫), Choe Chang-sun (최창순, 崔昌淳), Choe Tong-u (최동우, 崔東宇), and Ri Kon-u. Early life Choe Chang-ik was born in Onsong County, Korea in 1896. His exact date of birth remains unknown. In his fifth year of high school he participated in the March 1st Movement, which resulted in his expulsion. That same year he went to Japan to continue his education at the Seisoku English School (today's Seisoku Gakuen High School). Choe Chang-ik later studied at Tokyo's Waseda University in the Department of Economics and Politics where he organised a student union and continued his activism. This included secretly infiltrating areas in Korea such as Ganggyeong, Jeonju, Okgu, and Gunsan, where he went on a lecture tour to share his ideas on socialism and equality. Choe Chang-i ...
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Choi Chang-ik
Choe Chang-ik (, 1896 – 1960) was a Korean politician in the Japanese colonial era. He was a member of the Korean independence movement. He was also known by the names Choe Chang-sok (최창석, 崔昌錫), Choe Chang-sun (최창순, 崔昌淳), Choe Tong-u (최동우, 崔東宇), and Ri Kon-u. Early life Choe Chang-ik was born in Onsong County, Korea in 1896. His exact date of birth remains unknown. In his fifth year of high school he participated in the March 1st Movement, which resulted in his expulsion. That same year he went to Japan to continue his education at the Seisoku English School (today's Seisoku Gakuen High School). Choe Chang-ik later studied at Tokyo's Waseda University in the Department of Economics and Politics where he organised a student union and continued his activism. This included secretly infiltrating areas in Korea such as Ganggyeong, Jeonju, Okgu, and Gunsan, where he went on a lecture tour to share his ideas on socialism and equality. Choe Chang-i ...
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Ho Ka-i
Alexei Ivanovich Hegai (russian: Алексей Иванович Хегай, ko, 허가이; 18 March 1908 – 2 July 1953), also known as Ho Ka-i, was a Soviet political operative in North Korea (DPRK) and leader of the Soviet Korean faction within the early political structure of North Korea. He was second vice-chairman of the DPRK Politburo from 1949 until he was purged. He allegedly committed suicide in Pyongyang and was replaced as leader by Pak Chang-ok. Early life Aleksei Ivanovich Hegai, also known as Ho Ka-i, was born on 18 March 1908 in Khabarovsk in Russia. His father was a teacher at a Korean school in the Soviet Union. Ho Ka-i was never given a Korean name when he was born, unlike many Russian Koreans. His Korean name is assumed to be an adaptation of his Russian family name. He was orphaned at a young age; his mother died in 1911 and a few months later his father committed suicide. Ho Ka-i and his younger brother were raised by their uncle, who worked as a digger ...
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Workers' Party Of North Korea
The Workers' Party of North Korea () was a communist party in North Korea from 1946 to 1949 and was a predecessor of the current Workers' Party of Korea. It was founded at a congress on 28–30 August 1946, by the merger of the northern branch of the Communist Party of Korea and the New People's Party of Korea. Kim Tu-bong, the leader of the New People's Party, was elected chairman of the party, while Chu Yong-ha and Kim Il-sung were elected as vice chairmen. At the time of establishment, the party is believed to have had about 366,000 members organized in around 12,000 party cells.These figures appears to be taken from official North Korean sources. Soviet authors A. Gitovich and B. Bursov claimed that the party had around 160,000 members in 1946. Merger The merger of the North Korea Bureau of the Communist Party of Korea and the New People's Party can be seen as analogous to similar mergers taking place in Eastern Europe in the years following the Second World War, such ...
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Kim Chaek
Kim Chaek (, 14 August 1903 – 31 January 1951) was a North Korean revolutionary, military general, and politician. His real name was Kim Hong-gye (). Life Kim Chaek was born in Sŏngjin, North Hamgyong, Korea, in 1903. He and his family fled to Manchuria after Korea was colonized by Japan. In 1927, Kim joined the Communist Party of China and the Anti-Japanese movement to oppose the Japanese occupation. He was imprisoned for his resistance activities. After his release from prison, Kim joined the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army in 1935 and fought alongside Kim Il-sung. He fled to the Soviet Union to escape the Japanese conquest of the partisans in 1940. He lived in Khabarovsk where he met with Kim Il-sung and formed the 88th Special Brigade. After the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, he returned to Korea along with the Soviet Army in 1945. On September 9, 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was established, Kim became the industry minister and deputy pri ...
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Democratic Independent Party
Democratic Independent Party (; ) was a centrist political party in North and South Korea. The party was established on 19 October 1947. Its initiators were An Jae-hong, , Hong Myong-hui, Kim Ho, Pak Yong-hee, and Kim Won-yong. Of them, Hong became the chairman of the party. It participated in elections in North Korea from 1948 until at least 1962. Electoral history Supreme People's Assembly elections See also * Politics of North Korea * List of political parties in North Korea * Elections in North Korea * Politics of South Korea * List of political parties in South Korea * Elections in South Korea Elections in South Korea are held on a national level to select the President and the National Assembly. Local elections are held every four years to elect governors, metropolitan mayors, municipal mayors, and provincial and municipal legislature ... References Works cited * 1947 establishments in Korea Political parties established in 1947 Centrist parties in ...
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