Kim Du-bong

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	김두봉
Hancha	金 枓 奉
Revised Romanization	Gim Du-bong
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Dubong
See also : Korean name

Kim Du-bong (born March 16, 1886 in the district of Dongnae-gu, Busan City , Korea , † between 1957 and 1960 ?) Was a North Korean politician.

Career

During the time when Korea was a province of Japan, Kim Du-bong was active in the anti- Japanese Samil movement, which sought independence for Korea. After the movement was banned, he fled to Shanghai . In Chinese exile he participated in the Long March of the Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong in part. He later joined the Korean guerrillas who operated from China for the independence of Korea.

Kim founded the Korean Independence League in August 1942 and, after Japan surrendered in September 1945, the New People's Party , which later merged with the Korean Communist Party to form the Labor Party of North Korea , the predecessor of the Labor Party of Korea . Kim was the chairman of the newly formed party. From 1947 to 1948 he was also chairman of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea.

After the proclamation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) in 1948, Kim became a member of the Politburo of the Labor Party of Korea. From 1948 to 1957 he was chairman of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and thus formally head of state of North Korea.

In March 1958, Kim was criticized at a party conference, removed from all state and party offices and expelled from the party. He presumably died in 1960 in the Sun'an cooperative in P'yŏngan-namdo province as a cooperative farmer of an illness. The fall of Kim was part of a large-scale purge in the late 1950s that was directed against Korean communists who had returned to Korea from exile in China or the Soviet Union , or who had come to the north from the American-occupied southern part of Korea . Kim Il-sung , who was working to consolidate his sole rule over North Korea during this period, distrusted these groups.

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1. ↑ Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992 , Charles K. Armstrong, Cornell University Press, June 25, 2013 - 328 pages
2. ↑ (241) Kim Tu-bong and Historical Linguistics
3. ↑ Article on crime and terror in North Korea on the pages of the International Society for Human Rights

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Du-bong is the first name.