Choson'gul 박창옥 Name Pak Chang-ok McCune–Reischauer Pak Chang-ok | Hancha 朴昌玉 | |
Revised Romanization Bak Chang-ok |
Pak Chang-ok (died 1960, Korean: 박창옥) was a North Korean official and was a leader of the Soviet Korean faction of the party, with members being mainly ethnic Koreans born in Soviet Union, after the suicide of their first leader, Alexei Ivanovich Hegay.
Pak was a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and the Chairman of the State Planning Commission. He was appointed Vice-Premier of North Korea in March 1954.
Pak formed an alliance Choe Chang-ik and the Yanan Korean faction of the party to criticize Kim Il-sung in 1956, but was expelled following Kim's return from the Soviet Union. Pak died in 1960.
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