Kim Tong-gyu ( ko, 김동규; 1915 - unknown) was a politician of the

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who served as the Deputy Chairman of the State.

Biography

Kim was born in former

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in northeastern

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. He took part in anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare, and studied in Soviet Union. In 1961, he became a party central committee member of the Workers' Party of Korea. In 1962, he became a delegate of the Supreme People's Assembly. In November 1970, he became a member of the 5th WPK Political Committee at the 5th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.Sung Chul Yang. The North And South Korean Political Systems: A Comparative Analysis, p.341 He became a member of the (the predecessor of the

Cabinet of North Korea The Cabinet of North Korea (''Naegak'') is, according to the Constitution of North Korea, the administrative and executive body and a general state-management organ in the Government of North Korea. The Cabinet's principal newspaper is ''Minju C ...

) when it was established at the first meeting of the 5th term of the Supreme People's Assembly in December 1972. He was elected

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at the 4th meeting of the 5th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly in November 1974 and was mainly involved in diplomacy. In June 1976, at the party political committee, he said, "The successor's emergence is too quick. We must strengthen our education with a time that the people can be satisfied with." He criticized the creation of a successor system.“The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea’s Prison Camps (p. 41)”, David Hawk, He was purged in October 1977 and was not re-elected as Vice Chairman and Central People's Committee at the 6th session of the 1st session in December 1977. He is assumed to have been purged and exiled due to his opposition to the Kim Jong-il succession, and later detained in a

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References

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