Pak Chang-ok (Korean: 박창옥, 1896–1960) was a North Korean official and was a leader of the Soviet Korean faction of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), with members being mainly ethnic Koreans born in Soviet Union, after the suicide of their first leader, Ho Ka-i.

Pak was a member of the Central Committee of the WPK, and the Chairman of the State Planning Commission. He was appointed Vice-Premier of North Korea in March 1954.

Pak formed an alliance with 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.[citation needed] Pak died in 1960.

Works cited

  • Armstrong, Charles K. (25 June 2013). . Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-6893-3.
  • Lankov, Andrei N. (2002). "Kim Takes Control: The 'Great Purge' in North Korea, 1956-1960". Korean Studies. 26 (1): 87–119. doi:. ISSN . S2CID .

Bibliography

  • Tertitskiy, Fyodor (June 14, 2024). "Pak Ch'ang-ok: Kim Il-sung's (equally) evil twin". The Forgotten Political Elites of North Korea: Woe to the Vanquished. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. pp. 160–179. ISBN 9781032745473.