Kang Mun-sok
Kang Mun-sok | |
Hangul | 강문석 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Gang Munseok |
McCune–Reischauer | Kang Munsŏk |
Kang Mun-sok (1906–1955) was a Korean
the Japanese occupation period
and thereafter.
Born in Namjeju County on Jeju Province, he became active in the socialist movement in Japan starting in the 1920s. He worked from Shanghai with Pak Hon-yong in the 1930s, and also participated in the Kyongsong Communist Group, remaining loyal to the group throughout the occupation period.
After the end of
Jeju Uprising
in 1948.
After the
American military government of Korea, Kang moved to North Korea, but is believed to have been killed when the members of the WPSK were purged due to the Pak-Yi espionage affair. He was denounced for individualism and regionalism by Kim Il Sung at a party congress in 1955.[2][3]
See also
- Workers’ Party of South Korea
- Kim Dal-sam
References
- ISBN 89-8431-117-0.
- ISBN 9780231065733.
- ^ Kim Il Sung selected works. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. 1971. p. 566.