Kim Tong-gyu
Kim Tong-gyu | |
|---|---|
| 김동규 | |
| Member of the WPK Politburo | |
| In office 1970–1977 | |
| President | Kim Il Sung |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1915[1] |
| Political party | Workers' Party of Korea |
Kim Tong-gyu (
Democratic People's Republic of Korea who served as Vice President of North Korea
.
Biography
Kim was born in former Manchuria in northeastern China. He took part in anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare, and studied in Soviet Union.[1]
In 1961, he became a member of the
5th WPK Political Committee at the 5th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.[2] He became a member of the Central People's Committee (the predecessor of the Cabinet of North Korea
) when it was established at the first meeting of the 5th term of the Supreme People's Assembly in December 1972.
He was elected vice president at the 4th meeting of the 5th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly in November 1974 and was mainly involved in diplomacy. In June 1976, at the party political committee, he said, "The successor's emergence is too quick. We must strengthen our education with a time that the people can be satisfied with." He criticized the creation of a successor system.[3]
He was purged in October 1977 and was not re-elected as Vice Chairman and
concentration camp.[3]
References
- ^ a b Article title [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Sung Chul Yang. The North And South Korean Political Systems: A Comparative Analysis, p.341
- ^ a b “The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea’s Prison Camps (p. 41)”, David Hawk,