Kim Kuk-thae

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Kim Kuk-thae (Korean: 김국태, born August 27, 1924 in Seihsin , Kankyō-hokudō Province , Japanese Empire ; † December 13, 2013 ) was a North Korean lieutenant general and politician of the Labor Party of Korea (PdAK) and chairman of the Party Control Commission as well Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the PdAK.

Life

Kim Kuk-thae, whose father Kim Chaek fought alongside Kim Il-sung for the sovereignty of North Korea and later was Vice Prime Minister, Industry Minister and Commander in the Korean War , grew up in Manchuria and studied at the Kim-Il-sung University and then from 1947 to 1949 at Lomonossow University in Moscow . From the beginning of the 1960s he took on increasingly important tasks in the PdAK and in the government of North Korea and was initially vice-president of the Central Party Academy, the Kim Il Sung Party College .

In 1963 he was promoted to lieutenant general of the Korean People's Army (KVA) and at the same time took over the post of vice-general director of the main political administration of the army. During the fourth legislative period , Kim was elected deputy of the Supreme People's Assembly in 1967 and has been a member of it ever since.

In February 1968 he was elected candidate for the Central Committee of the PdAK and was appointed head of the party's propaganda and agitation department. In 1972 he became a member of the Central Electoral Commission and then in 1976 dean of the Kim Il-sung Party College. In 1977 he was again temporarily acting head of the department for propaganda and agitation and was elected a member of the Central Committee of the PdAK in 1980.

Kim Kuk-thae, who was awarded the Kim Il-sung Order in 1982, was reappointed head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department in 1983, before becoming head of the Central Committee's Department of Science and Education in August 1984. In 1985 he finally took over the post of head of the important department for cadres of the Central Committee of the PdAK. In addition, he became a member of the Candidate Examination Committee of the Supreme People's Congress in November 1986.

After he was again dean of the Kim Il-sung party college between 1990 and 1993, he became secretary of the Central Committee of the PdAK for cadres in 1993. In this role, he was a member of the party's committees for the organization of state funerals for Kim Il-sung in 1994, Defense Minister Marshal O Chin-u in 1995 and his successor Ch'oe Kwang in 1997.

In 2010 Kim Kuk-thae was elected a member of the Politburo and chairman of the party control commission of the PdAK Central Committee and was thus a member of the party's top leadership body.

On December 13, 2013, he died of heart failure at the age of 89 and was buried with honors at a state funeral .

Web links

  • Entry in North Korea Leadership Watch (accessed December 15, 2013)
  • Biography (accessed December 15, 2013)
  • CV (English, PDF, 21 kB; accessed on December 15, 2013)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kim's aunt appears OK after husband's execution ( English ) The Associated Press . Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  2. ↑ N. Korea Politburo member Kim Kuk Thae this at age 89 . Kyodo News International from December 15, 2013 (English).
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, Kuk-thae is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kim, Kuk-thae
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North Korean politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Seihsin , Kankyō-hokudō Province , Japanese Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2013