Kim Chaek facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Kim Chaek
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Official photograph of Kim Chaek used by the North Korean government
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| Vice Premier of the Cabinet | |
| In office 9 September 1948 – 31 January 1951 Serving with Pak Hon-yong, Hong Myong-hui and Ho Ka-i.
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| Premier | Kim Il Sung |
| Minister of Industry | |
| In office 9 September 1948 – 31 January 1951 |
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| Premier | Kim Il Sung |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Chong Il-yong |
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Kim Hong-gye
14 August 1903 Sŏngjin, Haksong County, North Hamgyong Province, Korean Empire |
| Died | 31 January 1951 (aged 47) Pyongyang, South Pyongan, North Korea |
| Citizenship | North Korean |
| Nationality | Korean |
Kim Chaek (14 August 1903 – 31 January 1951) was a North Korean National resistance activist, general, politician and poet. His real name was Kim Hong-gye.
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Life
Born in Sŏngjin, early years Kim joined the guerrilla war against the Japanese occupation in 1927 and fought alongside Kim Il-sung in Manchuria. He joined the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army in 1932.
He defected to the Soviet Union to escape the Japanese conquest of the partisans in 1940. He lived in Khabarovsk where he met with Kim Il-Sung and formed the 88th Special Brigade. He returned to Korea along with the Soviet Army. He was appointed number 2 Committee Vice Chairman in the Korean Workers Party.
Kim Chaek became Industry Minister and Deputy Prime Minister under Kim Il-Sung in 1948. In the Korean War, he was commander of the North Korean troops on the front lines.
Kim was purged when he was found responsible for the failure at the Incheon Landing. He died in January 1951 after an American military air raid bombing. Some scholars believe that his death was an assassination after a power struggle, and caused by gas poisoning rather than an air strike.
Posthumous honours
After his death, Kim Chaek's birthplace Haksong County, combined with the neighboring Songjin City, was formally renamed to Kim Chaek City to commemorate his life and accomplishments.
The Kim Chaek University of Technology, Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, and Kim Chaek People's Stadium are also named after him.
He was posthumously awarded North Korea's National Reunification Prize in 1998.
Images for kids
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Kim Chaek 1920s
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Bust at the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery
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The Kim Chaek University of Technology in Otan-Kangan Street, Pyongyang
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Kim Chaek University of Technology - Pyongyang
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See also
In Spanish: Kim Chaek para niños
