Pak Yong-bin ( ko, 박영빈) was a

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 politician who served as the Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Biography

He was born in

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of ...

and graduated from a party school. From 1953 to 1956 he became a member of the 6th Joint Plenary Session of the

2nd Standing Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea The 2nd Standing Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), officially the Standing Committee of the 2nd Central Committee (2nd CC), was elected in the immediate aftermath of the 2nd WPK Congress on 30 March 1948 by the 2nd CC's 1st Plenary S ...

. From 23 March 1954 to 18 September 1961, he was the Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Being a member of the Soviet faction, In 1956 he was purged during the

August Faction Incident The August Faction Incident ( ko, 8월 종파 사건), officially called the "Second Arduous March", was an attempted removal of Kim Il-sung from power by leading North Korean figures from the Soviet-Korean faction and the Yan'an faction, with s ...

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pak, Yong-bin Members of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea Members of the 2nd Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Soviet Korean faction Koryo-saram politicians Politicians from Tashkent Soviet people of Korean descent