Choson'gul 김웅 Choson'gul 왕신호 McCune–Reischauer Kim Ung Role Engineer | Revised Romanization Gim Ung Name Kim Ung Hancha 金雄 Hancha 王信虎 Parents Kim Soo-Sun | |
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Kim ung yong
Kim Ung ([ki.muŋ] or [kim] [uŋ];16 October 1910/1912 in Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang – ?) was a North Korean general and vice-minister of defence. He was a member of the Yan'an faction.
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Kim ung yong
Chinese military
Kim fled Korea to avoid the Japanese occupation, and was trained at the Whampoa Military Academy in the late 1920s or early 1930s. He became a communist and probably was on the Long March. During the late 1930s and the 1940s he was in the Eighth Route Army and became brigadier or divisional commander.
Korean war
On the outbreak of war, 25 June 1950, Kim was a lieutenant general commanding 1 Corps of the Korean People's Army (KPA). On the death in action of Lieutenant General Kong Kang Kim succeeded him as chief of staff to General Kim Ch'aek, front commander.
By 1951 Kim Ung was KPA front commander, succeeding Kim Ch'aek, who was purged for his failure at the Incheon Landing, Kim Ung held the post until the end of the war.
Post war
After the war Kim Ung was appointed vice defence minister of North Korea. In 1958 he was purged by Kim Il-sung, rehabilitated and purged again in 1978.