Pak Yong-sun

Pak Yong-sun (19 October 1905 – 18 August 1987) was a North Korean guerilla fighter, and later a politician after liberation, being a deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly and a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Early life Pak Yong-sun was in Kyongwon, in North Hamgyong Province in either 19 October 1905 or 1909. He completed primary school by 1919, and was subsequently sent to work in Kaolin mines near Hoeryong by 1924. In 1927, he entered joined Anti-Japanese movements, for which he was imprisoned in 1930. After being released around or before 1933, he moved to Jiandao, As a result, he became a member of the guerilla unit in the Yanji area under Kim Il Sung from 1934.

Career In 1945, during the liberation of Korea, he marched into Pyongyang as part of the 88th brigade of independence, Far Eastern Army. and he was described as an expert of telecommunications.

He was the museum director of the Korean Revolution Museum since either 1973 or January 1971.

He led several delegations of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly on a number of unofficial overseas visits to East Germany, China, the USSR, Romania and Czechoslovakia.

He is known to have been awarded both the Order of Kim Il Sung and Hero of the Republic; however, the date when it was awarded is unknown.

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