Paek Hak-rim (October 1918 – October 5, 2006) was the Deputy Director of the

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

n Ministry of Public Security. He occupied a number of high-ranking positions, including serving from 1998 to 2003 on the

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. He was also the Minister of People's Security from 1998 to 2003.

Biography

Paek was born in

South Pyongan Province South Pyongan Province (Phyŏngannamdo; ) is a province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the southern half of the former Pyongan Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea. Its ca ...

, and served in the guerrilla armies of the

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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

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and promoted to lieutenant general. In March 1970, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Social Security.North Korea Under Kim Chong-il: Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change, p. 23
/ref> In November 1970, he was elected to the

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, and in August 1978, he was appointed deputy Minister of the People's Armed Forces. In 1992 he was promoted to the rank of

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. He has been a delegate to the

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following the 4th (1967),

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(1982),

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(1986),

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(1990),

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(1998), and 11th (2003) elections. He joined the

in 1970, and served on that body continuously beginning in 1980. In April 2000 he was appointed to the Minister of People's Security, a position he held until July 2003. Paek died of a brain hemorrhage on at 2 PM on October 5, 2006. The following day a wreath was sent to his funeral by

Kim Jong-il Kim Jong-il (; ; ; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim ...

, and laudatory obituaries were distributed through the

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References

*Yonhap News Agency. "Who's who, North Korea," pp. 787–812 in *

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1918 births 2006 deaths Members of the Supreme People's Assembly People from South Pyongan Korean independence activists Government ministers of North Korea Members of the 6th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea Members of the 5th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea People of 88th Separate Rifle Brigade {{NorthKorea-politician-stub

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