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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.

References

Pak Chang-ok Wikipedia