Pak Chong-ae
Pak Chong-ae | |
---|---|
Choe Yong-gon, Chong Il-yong and Kim Chang-man. | |
Minister of Agriculture | |
2nd term | |
In office October 1961 – 23 October 1962 | |
Preceded by | Yim Hae |
Succeeded by | Kim Man-gum |
Personal details | |
Born | 1907 International Stalin Prize (1950), Order of the National Flag (1st and 2nd class) |
Korean name | |
Chosŏn'gŭl | 박정애 |
Hancha | 朴正愛[1] |
Revised Romanization | Bak Jeong-ae[2] |
McCune–Reischauer | Pak Chŏng'ae[3] |
Pak Chong-ae (Korean: 박정애;[1] born Ch'oe Vera[4] 1907 – ?[a]), also known as Pak Den-ai,[5] was a North Korean politician.
Pak represented the
Pak was the first chairperson of the North Korean Central Committee of the
Pak is the only woman to have served in the
Pak was awarded with the
Early life and career
Pak was born in 1907 in
During the 1940s, Pak was married to Kim Yong-bom, chairman of the
It is possible that Pak informed the Chinese about North Korea's plans to attack South Korea just prior to the outbreak of the Korean War.[13]
In 1953, she headed the North Korean delegation to
She was the first chairperson of the North Korean Central Committee of the
Robert A. Scalapino and Lee Chong-Sik call her "the only woman ever to have been truly important in the [WPK]".[23] She lasted in mid-century North Korean political life when purges removed many other senior politicians.[24] Andrei Lankov describes her as "one of the most remarkable personalities of that remarkable era".[4] From 1961 to 1963 she was North Korea's Minister of Agriculture,[25] as of 2000[update] one of only six North Korean women to have served as ministers.[26] Pak was also the only woman to have served in the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea, the highest decision-making body of the party,[27] until Kim Yo-jong.[28]
Pak herself was purged by Kim at the 2nd Conference of the WPK in October 1966. The conference saw purges of mostly officials in charge of economic affairs, but Pak was not one of them, implying that she was purged because of Kim's desire to concentrate power.[29] Pak was expelled to the countryside after the purge.[24] She resurfaced in public life in 1986.[24][7] Her influence had been greatly weakened by then and she was allowed to hold minor positions only.[30][4] Her daughter, Pak Sun-hui, is the current chairperson of the central committee of the Korean Democratic Women's League.[9]
See also
Notes
- ^ Sometime in or after 1986
References
- ^ a b c d 박정애(朴正愛) [Pak Chong-ae]. North Korean Human Geography (in Korean). Seoul: Institute for Peace Affairs. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
- ^ Person, James F. (2007–2008). "New Evidence on North Korea in 1956". In Ostermann, Christian F. (ed.). Cold War International History Project Bulletin: Inside China's Cold War. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. p. 448. GGKEY:18LFSRTZZ8J.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8014-6879-7.
- ^ a b c d e f Lankov, Andrei (6 January 2008). "Union of Women". The Korea Times. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ de Haan 2013, p. 174.
- ^ a b Wada 2013, p. 28.
- ^ a b c d Lankov, Andrei (15 April 2011). "Recalled to life in Pyongyang". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 27 April 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
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- ^ OCLC 74273082.
- S2CID 154806824.
- ^ a b Park 1994, p. 181.
- ^ World Assembly for Peace (1955). World Assembly for Peace, Helsinki, June 22nd–29th, 1955: Proceedings. Secretariat of the World Council of Peace. p. 103.
- ISBN 978-1-78076-381-1.
- ^ "DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO STALIN'S DEATH UP TO 1:00 P.M. EST MARCH 9 | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)". www.cia.gov. Archived from the original on 23 January 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ^ a b Wada 2013, p. 286.
- ^ a b Scalapino & Lee 1972, p. 729.
- ISBN 978-0-8248-2809-7.
- ^ Spezza, Gianluca (30 January 2013). "The Women Of North Korea: Icons, Heroines & Power Players". NK News. Archived from the original on 17 May 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ de Haan 2013, p. 179.
- ^ de Haan 2013, p. 180.
- ^ "Rev. Moulton Gets Stalin 'Peace' Prize". The Deseret News. UP. 7 April 1950. p. 1B.
- ISBN 978-90-5356-433-2.
- ^ Scalapino & Lee 1972, p. 748.
- ^ a b c Lankov 2014, p. 16.
- ^ Park 1994, p. 182.
- ^ Lankov 2014, p. 28.
- ^ Park 1994, p. 179.
- ^ Ha Yoon Ah (13 July 2020). "Kim Yo Jong becomes full member of N. Korea's politburo". Daily NK. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ISBN 978-1-86064-415-3.
- ^ Lankov 2014, p. 16.
Works cited
- de Haan, Francisca (2013). "Eugénie Cotton, Pak Chong-ae, and Claudia Jones: Rethinking Transnational Feminism and International Politics". Journal of Women's History. 25 (4): 174–189. S2CID 201794308.
- Lankov, Andrei (2014). ISBN 978-0-19-939003-8.
- Park, Kyung Ae (1994). "Women and Revolution in South and North Korea". In Tétreault, Mary Ann (ed.). Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-016-1.
- Scalapino, Robert A.; Lee, Chong-Sik (1972). Communism in Korea II: The Society. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 729. ISBN 978-0-520-02274-4.
- Wada, Haruki (2013). The Korean War: An International History. Translated by Baldwin, Frank. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4422-2330-1.
Further reading
- Sŏ Tong-man (2005). Pukchosŏn sahoejuŭi ch'eje sŏngnipsa, 1945–1961 북조선 사회주의 체제 성립사, 1945–1961 [Establishment of Socialist System in North Korea] (in Korean). Seoul: Sŏnin. ISBN 978-89-89205-89-0.
- Yi Chong-sŏk (1995). Chosŏn Nodongdang yŏn'gu: chido sasang kwa kujo pyŏnhwa rŭl chungsim ŭro 조선 로동당 연구: 지도 사상 과 구조 변화 를 중심 으로 [Study on the Workers' Party of Korea] (in Korean). Seoul: Yŏksa Pip'yŏngsa. ISBN 978-89-7696-106-8.
External links
- Pak Chong-ae at the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (in Korean)
- Pak Chong-ae at North Korean Human Geography (in Korean)