Kim Rak-hui
Kim Rak-hui | |
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김락희 | |
Vice Premier of North Korea | |
In office 7 June 2010 – April 2012 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Kaechon, South Pyongan Province, Korea | 11 November 1933
Died | February 2013 (aged 79) |
Citizenship | North Korean |
Nationality | Korean |
Political party | Workers' Party of Korea |
Alma mater | University of National Economics |
Awards | Hero of Labor, Order of Kim Il Sung, Order of Kim Jong Il, Order of the National Flag (first class) |
Korean name | |
Chosŏn'gŭl | 김락희 |
Hancha | 金洛姬 |
Revised Romanization | Kim Nakhee |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Rak-hu’i[1] |
Kim Rak-hui (
In 2012, her career started to decline as she was stripped of her Politburo membership and Vice-Premiership. Initially, it was speculated that she was caught up in personnel changes to consolidate the rule of
Early life
Kim Rak-hui was born in Kaechon, South Pyongan Province on 11 November 1933. Before her career, she graduated from the University of National Economics.[3]
Career
Most of Kim's career was spent in agricultural cooperatives and rural management committees. During the Korean War, she supervised food rationing and distribution. Her efforts caught the attention of the country's leader, Kim Il Sung.[1] After the war, she became the general manager of Ponghwa Agricultural Cooperatives in South Pyongan Province in August 1953.[4] In the aftermath of the war, she drove rebuilding efforts on farms of the Kaechon area, for which she was awarded the title Hero of Labor in 1955.[1] She became the chairwoman of Kaechon Ponghwa Agricultural Cooperatives in September 1962.[4]
Kim was elected a member of parliament to the
In November 1970 Kim became a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at the Fifth WPK Congress. She was demoted to alternate member in October 1980 at the Sixth Party Congress.[4][1] In November 1984 Kim become the municipal chairwoman of Kaesong. In April 1990 Kim was appointed the chairwoman of the South Pyongan Province Rural Managerial Committee. She was dismissed from her post in September 1997.[4] That year she was made vice director of the WPK Agriculture Department, but continued to be an advisor to the South Pyongan committee. In June 2005 she became Chief Secretary of the South Hwanghae Provincial WPK Committee.[1]
Kim was appointed to the
After Kim Il Sung died in 1994, Kim Rak-hui was on his funeral committee. She was on a similar committee of O Jin-u the following year.[4] She was number 24 on the committee of Jo Myong-rok.[9] In 2011, she appeared on the committee for the funeral of Kim Jong-il, ranked 21 highest.[10]
Decline and death
Kim was last seen in public in early March 2012 at an
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Former DPRK Vice Premier Kim Rak Hui Dies (updated on 20 February)". North Korea Leadership Watch. 20 February 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
- ^ 김락희(여성). nkinfo.unikorea.go.kr (in Korean). Ministry of Unification. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Herman 2011, p. 65.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7656-3523-5.
- ^ Lee 2013, p. 69.
- ^ Gause 2011, Table 6.6.
- ^ Gause 2011, p. 140, 140n106.
- ^ a b "Kim Rak Hui, Initiator of Plowwoman Movement". KCNA. 20 February 2013. Archived from the original on 8 September 2017.
- ^ Herman 2011, p. 91.
- ^ Lee 2013, Table 4-1.
- ^ "Pregaming the 12th SPA's 6th Session (revised)". North Korea Leadership Watch. 24 September 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
- ^ Mansourov 2013, p. 94n37.
Works cited
- Gause, Ken E. (2011). North Korea Under Kim Chong-il: Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-38175-1.
- Herman, Luke (31 July 2011). North Korea Leadership Review: January – June 2011 (PDF). NK News. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
- Lee Ju-cheol (2013). "The Power Elite of North Korea's Monolitihc System". In Han Jong-woo; Jung Tae-hern (eds.). Understanding North Korea: Indigenous Perspectives. Lanham: Lexington Books. pp. 61–87. ISBN 978-0-7391-7921-5.
- Mansourov, Alexandre Y. (2013). "Kim Jong Un's First 500 Days: Consolidating Power and Clearing Political Space for National Revival" (PDF). International Journal of Korean Unification Studies. 22 (1): 81–108. ISSN 1229-6902.