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Ju To-il
Ju To-il ( ko, 주도일/朱道一) (1922 – July 5, 1994) was a North Korean army officer who served as the personal guard of Kim Il-sung held the rank of Vice-Marshal. Biography Born and raised in Wangqing County, Gando. Since the age of 15, he has been active as a guard and messenger for Kim Il-sung and his guerrilla unit. In the early 1940s, he worked as a special reconnaissance unit of the Soviet Army across the Tumen River. After liberation of Korea, he escorted Kim Il-sung and entered Korea. After entering the country, he served as a battalion commander and battalion commander of the Kim Il-Sung Guard and participated in the war as battalion commander of the People's Army during the Korean War. In 1954, he studied abroad at the Soviet Military College, and after graduating in 1958, he returned to Korea and became a regiment. Candidate member of the Central Committee in 1961, Deputy of the Supreme People's Assembly of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th and 9th convocation, the divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Military Commission Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
The Central Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (CMC) () is an organ of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) which is responsible for coordinating the Party organizations within the Korean People's Army (KPA). One of the CMC's primary functions is to authorize defense and munitions spending and product orders, and to determine how natural resources and products from military-controlled production units are earmarked and distributed domestically and for sale abroad. According to the WPK Charter, the CMC directs WPK activities in the KPA and is chaired by the WPK General Secretary. The CMC relies on a number of organizations to carry out its mandate, including the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, the WPK Military Department, and the WPK Machine-Building Department. The CMC also uses the WPK Military Affairs Department to transmit guidance and indoctrination of North Korea's reserve military tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumen River
The Tumen River, also known as the Tuman River or Duman River (), is a long river that serves as part of the boundary between China, North Korea and Russia, rising on the slopes of Mount Paektu and flowing into the Sea of Japan. The river has a drainage basin of 33,800 km2 (13,050 sq mi). The river flows in northeast Asia, on the border between China and North Korea in its upper reaches, and between North Korea and Russia in its last before entering the Sea of Japan. The river forms much of the southern border of Jilin Province in Northeast China and the northern borders of North Korea's North Hamgyong and Ryanggang provinces. Baekdu Mountain on the Chinese-North Korean border is the source of the river, Much of the information comes from the captions to the large illustrated map published with the newspaper article and available online with it. as well as of the Amnok River, also called the Yalu River (which forms the western portion of the border of North Korea and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Deaths
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa's first president, and which effectively brought Apartheid to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada, the United States, and Mexico; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened Channel tunnel; The 1994 FIFA World Cup is held in the United States; Skulls from the Rwandan genocide, in which over half a million Tutsi people were massacred by Hutus., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1994 Winter Olympics rect 200 0 400 200 Northridge earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Sinking of the MS Estonia rect 0 200 300 400 Rwandan genocide rect 300 200 600 400 Nelson Mandela rect 0 400 200 600 1994 FIFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 Births
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North Korean Generals
North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is related to the Old High German ''nord'', both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit *''ner-'', meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word ''borealis'' comes from the Greek '' boreas'' "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was personified as the wind-god Boreas, the father of Calais and Zetes. ''Septentrionalis'' is from ''septentriones'', "the seven plow oxen", a name of ''Ursa Major''. The Greek ἀρκτικός (''arktikós'') is named for the same constellation, and is the source of the English word ''Arctic''. Other languages have other derivations. For example, in Lezgian, ''kefer'' can mean b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery
Taesongsan Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery () is a cemetery and memorial to the North Korean soldiers fighting for freedom and independence against Japanese rule. It is located near the top of Mount Taesong (Taesongsan) in the Taesong-guyŏk, just outside Pyongyang, North Korea. Description The cemetery with hundreds of tombs was completed in 1975 and in October 1985 was renovated and expanded. It covers an area of 30 hectares. The entrance to the cemetery is marked by a monumental gate in Korean style. Each of the graves is provided with a bronze bust. At the far end of the memorial there is a conspicuous red flag made of granite. Heo-nik Kwon & Byung-Ho Chung (2012) covered the cemetery in their publication "North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics", noting the cemetery's political significance to the revolutionary narratives of the North Korean state and the large scale absence of any ordinary military cemeteries in North Korea Notable people buried * Kim Jong-suk, first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Mun-sop
Jon Mun-sop (November 24, 1919 – December 29, 1998) was a North Korean politician, member of the Supreme People's Assembly, the unicameral parliament of North Korea. Biography Jon was born in Manchuria on November 24, 1919. He took part in the armed struggle against the Japanese colonial rule in Korea at age 18. With the Day of the Foundation of the Republic, establishment of the North Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea and became a vice Ministry of Social Security (North Korea), Minister of Public Safety in 1963, chairman of the Control Committee in 1972 and a party Politburo member in 1976. Since October 1980 he was member of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. He was Honorable one of four Vice Presidents of the Presidium of the 10th Supreme People's Assembly, 10th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly. Works * * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Jon, Mun-sop 1919 births 1998 deaths Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paek Hak-rim
Paek Hak-rim (October 1918 – October 5, 2006) was the Deputy Director of the North Korean Ministry of Public Security. He occupied a number of high-ranking positions, including serving from 1998 to 2003 on the National Defense Commission. He was also the Minister of People's Security from 1998 to 2003. Biography Paek was born in South Pyongan Province, and served in the guerrilla armies of the Korean independence movement The Korean independence movement was a military and diplomatic campaign to achieve the independence of Korea from Japan. After the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910, Korea's domestic resistance peaked in the March 1st Movement of 1919, which ... before 1945. He also served in the North Korean army after independence, reaching the rank of Major General in 1958 and Lieutenant General in 1962. In 1962, he was appointed Director of the Political Security Bureau of the Ministry of People's Armed Forces, Ministry of National Defense and promoted to lieute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Myong-rok
Jo Myong-lok (12 July 1928 – 6 November 2010) was a North Korean military officer who held the military rank Chasu (Vice Marshal). In 1998, he was appointed First Vice-Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, Director of the Korean People's Army General Political Bureau. Previously, he was the commander of the air defence forces. Life and career Jo was born in Yonsa County, North Hamgyong province, on 12 July 1928 and he joined the Korean People's Army in December 1950."Profiles of Presidium and Members of Political Bureau" , KCNA, 29 September 2010. He was a graduate of the Manchuria Aviation School and Soviet Air Academy. After serving as a pilot in the |
Ri Tu-ik
Ri Tu-ik ( ko, 리두익/李斗益; born 1921 in Jilin, China - died March 13, 2002, in Pyongyang) was a North Korean politician of the Workers' Party of Korea and Vice-Marshal of the Korean People's Army, who was a member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea. Biography Ri Tu-ik joined Kim Il-sung's partisan struggle in the late 1930s and was part of his security escort. After training in guerrilla warfare in northeast China, as a member of the 88th Special Reconnaissance Brigade (russian: 88-я отдельная стрелковая бригада) of the Red Army, he led reconnaissance missions against the Japanese occupation forces in Jilin and North Hamgyong Province. In 1945 he was first platoon leader and then in 1948 company commander in the security escort of Kim Il-sung. During the Korean War, known in North Korea as "Victorious Liberation of the Fatherland", Ri was commander of a battalion in 1951 and then completed military training be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Defense Commission
The National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (NDC) () was the highest state institution for military and national defence leadership in North Korea, which also served as the highest governing institution of the country from 1998 until 2016 when it was replaced by the State Affairs Commission. History The National Defence Commission started as the National Defence Commission of the Central People's Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea () which was created on 27 December 1972 by the 1972 Constitution as one of the commissions that were subordinate to the Central People's Committee. The commission was separated from the on 9 April 1992 through an amendment of the 1972 Constitution, and became the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It was also designated as the "supreme military leadership institution of state power." National Defense Commission was separated from the Central People's Committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
