Pak Chang Ok

Pak Chang Ok
Chosŏn'gŭl 박창옥
Hancha 朴昌玉
McCune–Reischauer Pak Chang-ok
Revised Romanization Bak Chang-ok

Pak Chang Ok (Korean: 박창옥) was a North Korean official and was General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea).[1]

Pak was a leader of the Soviet Korean faction of the party, with members being mainly ethnic Koreans born in Russia, after the suicide of their first leader, Alexei Ivanovich Hegay. He was also a member of the Central Committee.

Pak formed an alliance Choe Chang Ik and the Chinese Korean or Yanan Korean faction of the party to criticize Kim Il-sung in 1956, but was expelled following the return of Kim from the Soviet Union.[2] He died in September 1958.

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