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unusual facts about Choe Chang-ik



Workers' Party of Korea

The Yanan faction, led first by Mu Chong and then by Kim Tu-bong and Choe Chang-ik, were those Korean exiles who had lived in China's Shaanxi province and joined the Communist Party of China whose regional headquarters were at Yan'an.


see also

Pak Chang-ok

Pak formed an alliance Choe Chang Ik and the Chinese Korean or Yanan Korean faction of the party to criticize Kim Il-sung in 1956, but was expelled following the return of Kim from the Soviet Union.