Pak Nam-ki

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Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl 박남기
Hancha 朴南基
Revised
Romanization
Bak Nam-gi
McCune-
Reischauer
Pak Namgi

Pak Nam-ki (born February 21, 1934 , † March 2010 in Pyongyang ) was head of the Finance Committee of the Labor Party of North Korea .

In March 2010 he was executed in Pyongyang for allegedly deliberately harming the country's economy by shooting .

Western media suspect that he was the scapegoat for the failure of the 2009 North Korean won devaluation . The devaluation resulted in the loss of the savings of many North Koreans.

Individual evidence

  1. 朴南基 ( Memento from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), 私設 朝鮮民主主義人民共和国 研究室 (Japanese).
  2. N. Korean technocrat executed for bungled currency reform: sources . Yonhap News. March 18, 2010. Retrieved March 18, 2010., Kim Jong-il 'Suffers Depression' . Chosun Ilbo, English edition. March 3, 2010. Retrieved March 18, 2010., North Korea Executes Official for Currency Reform, Yonhap Says . Bloomberg. March 17, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011., https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article6826984/Nordkorea-exekutiert-KP-Functionaer-wegen-Inflation.html
  3. ^ North Korean finance chief executed for botched currency reform . Guardian Online. March 18, 2010. Retrieved March 18, 2010.
  4. North Koreans dare to protest as devaluation wipes out savings . The Independent. December 3, 2009. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  5. North Korean official Pak Nam-ki executed for disastrous currency reform . Times Online. March 18, 2010. Retrieved March 18, 2010.
  6. North Korea executes official for blunder Reuters from March 18, 2010 (English).