Ch'oe Yong-gŏn

This article is about General and Politician Choe Yong-gon. For the younger politician of that name, see Choe Yong-gon (Politician) .

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	최용건
Hancha	崔 庸 健
Revised Romanization	Choe Yong-geon
McCune- Reischauer	Ch'oe Yonggŏn
See also : Korean name

Ch'oe Yong-gŏn (also Zoi En Gen ; born June 21, 1900 in Sossok; † September 19, 1976 ) was a Korean resistance fighter and North Korean military and politician ( PdAK ).

Life

Ch'oe attended two military academies in his youth and was active in the armed resistance against Japanese colonial rule over Korea. In 1927 he was involved in communist riots in the southern Chinese city ​​of Canton . After the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931, he led an anti-Japanese guerrilla unit here.

In 1936, Ch'oe became an officer in the Korean People's Revolutionary Army . In February 1948 he became commander in chief of the North Korean troops and remained in this position through the entire Korean War until its end in 1953. After the war he became North Korea's Minister of Defense until 1957, when he became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly , the North Korean Parliament. In this position it according to the North Korean Constitution for head of state made, he remained as head of state followed him to 1972. Kim Il-sung in the newly created office of the president.

literature

• Zoi En Gen , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 50/1976 of November 29, 1976, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ch'oe is the family name here, Yong-gŏn is the first name.