Kim Yong-bom (18 August 1902 – 7 September 1947) was a North Korean

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and

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who led the Communist Party between 1945 and 1947. In the early 1930s, Kim studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in

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, where he met the communist and

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organizer Pak Chong-ae. Kim and Pak would return to Korea in 1932 "in disguise as a couple" and later went on to marry. He was made Secretary of the

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of the Communist Party of Korea in 1945 after the assassination of Hyŏn Chunhyŏk. This makes Kim the first leader of the current-day

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"Kim Tu-bong and Historical Linguistics" by Andrei Lankov
* Activists for Korean independence Korean communists Anti-revisionists Stalinism North Korean atheists Leaders of the Workers' Party of Korea and its predecessors 1902 births 1947 deaths Deaths from cancer in North Korea Deaths from stomach cancer {{NorthKorea-politician-stub