Choe Yong-gon (official)

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Not to be confused with Choe Yong-gon (vice-premier).
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Choe Yong-gon
최용건
Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army
In office
2 September 1948 – 4 July 1950
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byKim Il Sung
Personal details
Born(1900-06-21)21 June 1900
Korean Independence Movement
World War II
Korean War
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl
최용건
Hancha
崔庸健
Revised RomanizationChoe Yonggeon
McCune–ReischauerCh'oe Yonggŏn

Choe Yong-gon (

Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
from 1957 to 1972.

Early life and education

Choe was born in

North Pyongan, Korea, in 1900. He was educated at two military academies
.

Career

Choe Yong-gon, Kim Chaek, Kim Il, and Kang Kon receiving the first domestically produced Type 49 submachine guns from President Kim Il Sung, 1949.
Chairman of the People's Republic of China Liu Shaoqi during his official visit to Beijing
, 5 June 1963.

Choe's first military deployment was to fight the Chinese

Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army
in 1936.

He led a guerrilla unit against the

88th Independent Brigade of the Soviet Army
.

In 1945, he returned to Korea after Japan was defeated in World War II.

In 1946, he became the chairman of the

communist course.[1] He was, however, concurrently secretly a member of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea and tasked with keeping the KDP from becoming an independent political force.[2] Afterwards, he came into more promotions and by February 1948, he was appointed the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.[1] When the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was established in Pyongyang on September 9, 1948, he was appointed the Minister of National Security. He was in fact the senior field commander for all the North Korean armies during the Korean War, from the first invasion of South Korea in June 1950 till the Korean Armistice Agreement
was signed in July 1953.

In 1953, Choe was

President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, a largely ceremonial position.[1] In this post, he was North Korea's nominal head of state. He was appointed as Vice President by the Supreme People's Assembly in 1972 and he left the office in 1974.[3][4] He died in Pyongyang in 1976.[5] Following his death he was given a state funeral.[6]

Personal life

Choe Yong-gon and Kim Il Sung at Kim Chaek's funeral, 1 February 1951.

In his memoirs, Hwang Jang-yop, a former chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly who defected to South Korea said Choe was famous for being very hard to have close relations with, but in reality he was not that strict.[7]

In 1970 there were reports of his deteriorating health, and after attending in November

German Democratic Republic.[8]

Works

See also

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Fyodor Tertitskiy (12 June 2014). "An Exception to the Rules of Kimism". Daily NK. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
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  5. ^ "Choe Yong-Kon". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (3rd ed.). The Gale Group. 1970–1979.
  6. ISBN 9781317284970
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  7. ^ "Seeds of Juche Sown by Sino-Soviet Split", Hwang Jang Yop's memories
  8. ^ R. S. Milward (Chapter on Korea) (1971). Macadam, Ivison; Grindrod, Muriel; Boas, Ann (eds.). The Annual Register of World Events 1970. 212. Great Britain: St. Martin's Press, Longmans, Green and Co Ltd. p. 312.
Political offices
Preceded by Head of State of North Korea
20 September 1957 – 28 December 1972 		Succeeded byas President of the Republic
Preceded by Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly
1957–1972 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
—
Minister of People's Armed Forces

7 February 1953 – 20 September 1957 		Succeeded by
Military offices
Preceded by
New Office
Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army

8 February 1948 – 4 July 1950 		Succeeded by
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