Kim Yŏng-ju

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	김영주
Hancha	金 英 柱
Revised Romanization	Gim Yeong-ju
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Yŏng'ju
See also : Korean name

Kim Yong-ju (* 1920 in Mangyongdae at Heijō , sub-province Heian Nando , Province Chosen , onetime Empire of Japan , today's North Korea ) is a North Korean politician. He is honorary vice-president of the Supreme People's Assembly .

family

Kim Yŏng-ju is the youngest brother of North Korean President Kim Il-sung, who died in 1994, and is thus an uncle of the ruler Kim Jong-il, who died in December 2011 . As a member of the Kim family, he is particularly honored in North Korea.

Life

Kim Yŏng-ju studied at Moscow's Lomonosov University and a Moscow school for cadres of the Communist Party. After returning to North Korea, he worked in the organization department of the Central Committee of the Labor Party of Korea (PdAK). In 1966 he was appointed candidate of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Politburo . By the end of the 1960s he rose in the party hierarchy and was ultimately the most important functionary of the PdAK after his brother. However, Kim usually did not appear in public. One of the few exceptions was the 1972 talks between North and South Korea .

For some time, Kim Yŏng-ju was considered a potential successor to Kim Il-sung at the head of the state and thus a rival within the family of his nephew Kim Jong-il. But at the 7th plenary session of the PdAK Central Committee from September 4 to 17, 1973, he was downgraded from 6th place in the party hierarchy to 13th place. At the following 8th plenary session of the Central Committee from February 11 to 13, 1974, Kim Jong-il ousted his uncle. Kim Yŏng-ju lost all offices in the party and was resigned to the meaningless post of deputy minister. He held this office only temporarily, until April 1975.

From 1975 onwards, Kim Y -ng-ju disappeared from the public for 20 years. He was seen again at public events in the 1990s. In 1998 he became a member of the Supreme People's Assembly and its honorary vice-president, and in 2014 he was confirmed in this office.

Web links

• Profile on the website of the South Korean Broadcasting Corporation ( KBS )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Daniel Gomà: El nacimiento de la Dinastía Roja: La instauración de la sucesión hereditary en Corea del Norte (1970-1974) . In: Historia Contemporánea , ISSN  1130-2402 , No. 62 (2020), pp. 159–186, here p. 163.
2. ↑ Daniel Gomà: El nacimiento de la Dinastía Roja: La instauración de la sucesión hereditary en Corea del Norte (1970-1974) . In: Historia Contemporánea , No. 62 (2020), pp. 159–186, here p. 179.
3. ↑ Daniel Gomà: El nacimiento de la Dinastía Roja: La instauración de la sucesión hereditary en Corea del Norte (1970-1974) . In: Historia Contemporánea , No. 62 (2020), pp. 159–186, here p. 180.
4. ^ Rüdiger Frank : North Korea. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2014, page 73, ISBN 978-3-421-04641-3

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, Yŏng-ju is the first name.