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2 unusual facts about Pak Chang-ok


Pak Chang-ok

Pak was a leader of the Soviet Korean faction of the party, with members being mainly ethnic Koreans born in Russia, after the suicide of their first leader, Alexei Ivanovich Hegay.

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.



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