| Kim Kwang-hyop | |
|---|---|
| Chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army | |
In office August 1953 – September 1957 | |
| Minister of People's Armed Forces | |
In office September 1957 – 1962 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1915 |
| Died | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". July 1970 (aged Error: Need valid year, month, day) |
| Nationality | Korean |
| Political party | Workers' Party of Korea |
Kim Kwang-hyop (second row from top, second person from right) with the 88th Separate Rifle Brigade in 1943
Kim Kwang-hyop (Korean language: 김광협 , 1915 - 1970) was a politician anti-Japanese activist and a military officer and politician of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He served as Chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army.[1]
Biography[]
He was born in Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, in 1915. In 1930, at the age of 16, he moved to China and graduated from Huangpu Military Academy, where he worked as an anti-Japanese partisan. In 1935 he joined the Communist Party of China, and in 1940 he served as the second member of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army's Second Army. After the fall of the Japanese Empire, he became the commander of the military district of the Northeast Democratic Army of the Soviet Union.
At the onset of the Korean War he was the commander of the Second Army of the Korean People's Army.[2] After the armistice of the Korean War, he was promoted to the Chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army. He served as a delegate to the Supreme People's Assembly in following the 1957 North Korean parliamentary election and from September that year until October 1962 he was also Minister of People's Armed Forces.
In 1970, he criticized the only system of Juche ideology and was politically purged.
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