Pak Kyong-suk
{{Short description|North Korean politician (1921–2020)}}
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| name = Pak Kyong-suk
| image = Pak Kyong-suk.jpg
| birth_date = 1921
| birth_place = Eastern Manchuria
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|08|31|1921|df=y}}
| death_place = North Korea
| occupation = Politician
| party = Workers' Party of Korea
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| hangul = 박경숙
| hanja = 朴卿叔
| rr = Bak Gyeongsuk
| mr = Pak Kyŏngsuk
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Pak Kyong-suk ({{Korean|hangul=박경숙}}, 1921 – 31 August 2020)[https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1598958157-38592733/wreath-sent-to-bier-of-late-pak-kyong-suk/ Wreath Sent to Bier of Late Pak Kyong Suk] was a North Korean politician. She was a seamstress in Kim Il Sung's guerrilla forces during the 1930s. After the liberation of Korea, she held posts in the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), Democratic Women's League, as well as being a delegate to the Supreme People's Assembly.
Career
Pak Kyong-suk was born in Eastern Manchuria in 1921.{{Cite web |title=Otorgadas medallas rusas a KIM JONG UN y a revolucionarias antijaponesas coreanas |publisher=KFA Euskal Herria |date=7 May 2020 |access-date=17 August 2020 |url= https://www.kfa-eh.org/2020/05/07/otorgadas-medallas-rusas-a-kim-jong-un-y-a-revolucionarias-antijaponesas-coreanas/ |language=es }} In the 1930s during the anti-Japanese struggle,{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|p=739}} she was a member of Kim Il Sung's sewing unit. Kim Il Sung remembers her as one of the best radio operators in his autobiography With the Century,{{sfn|Kim|1998|p=239}} writing:
{{blockquote|Unable as she was to take a bit of the food served at the mess hall, Pak Kyong Suk was never absent from training in wireless communication. Even soon after delivery, she participated in the training course with great enthusiasm. She was so active in both her studies and exercises that the instructor of the wireless platoon spoke highly of Korean women, noting that they were indeed hard-working and persistent.
Pak Kyong Suk once accompanied Kim Chaek to the enemy-held area, carrying wireless equipment on her back, and engaging in small-unit activities for several months. She was very dexterous in operating the wireless.{{sfn|Kim|1998|p=279}} }}
Her political career began in c. 1948 when she became the director of the secret documents department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). In 1954 she became a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Women's League.
In July 1956, she became a deputy department director in the WPK South Hamhyong provincial committee. In October 1959 she became the chairwoman of the Pyongyang Paper Mill party committee. She became a candidate member of the WPK Central Committee in September 1961. In May 1963 she became the deputy director of the Light Industry and Commerce Department of the WPK Central Committee.{{cite book|title=Korean Affairs Report: North Korea: Biographical Dictionary (Part II)|number=304|date=25 August 1983|location=Arlington|publisher=Foreign Broadcast Information Service|id=JPRS 84183-II|access-date=15 August 2020|oclc=880847287|series=JPRS|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA368792.pdf#page=137|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003104133/https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA368792.pdf#page=137|url-status=live|archive-date=3 October 2020|page=584}} With these qualifications, she was considered a "veteran Party cadre".{{sfn|Scalapino|Lee|1972|p=733}}
In 1962 she was elected to the Supreme People's Assembly. She renewed her seat in 1967.
She was awarded the Jubilee Medal "70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" on 6 May 2015 by Vladimir Putin and Jubilee Medal "75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" on 6 May 2020.{{cite web|title=Russian Commemorative Medal Awarded to Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Fighters of DPRK|agency=KCNA|date=6 May 2015|url=http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2015/201505/news06/20150506-17ee.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191124074114/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2015/201505/news06/20150506-17ee.html|archive-date=24 November 2019}}{{Cite web |title=Commemorative Medals to Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Fighters |agency=KCNA |date=6 May 2020 |access-date=15 August 2020|url=http://kcna.co.jp/item/2020/202005/news07/20200507-03ee.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200507000000/http://kcna.co.jp/item/2020/202005/news07/20200507-03ee.html|archive-date=7 May 2020 }} [https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1588913125-912900376/commemorative-medals-to-anti-japanese-revolutionary-fighters/ Alt URL]
She was on the funeral committees of Kim Chol-man,{{Cite web |title=State Funeral Committee for Kim Chol Man Formed |agency=KCNA |date=4 December 2018 |url= http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2018/201812/news04/20181204-15ee.html }} Ri Ul-sol,{{Cite web |title=Ri Ul Sol Funeral Committee: Who's On, Who's Not |author= |work=North Korea Leadership Watch |date=9 November 2015 |access-date=31 August 2018 |url= http://www.nkleadershipwatch.org/2015/11/09/ri-ul-sol-funeral-committee-whos-on-whos-not/ }}{{Cite web |title=Supreme leader attends Marshal Ri Ul Sol's funeral |work=The Pyongyang Times |access-date=15 August 2020 |url=http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp/?bbs=21142 |archive-date=25 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125092058/http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp/?bbs=21142 |url-status=dead }} and Hwang Sun-hui.{{Cite web |script-title=ko:황순희동지의 서거에 대한 부고／조선중앙통신 보도 |work=Choson Sinbo |date=18 January 2020 |access-date=20 January 2020 |url= http://chosonsinbo.com/2020/01/kcna_200118-2/ |language=ko }}
See also
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References
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=Works cited=
- {{cite book |last=Kim |first=Il-sung |date=1998 |title=With the Century|volume=8 |url=http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/book/download.php?2+2008 |location=Pyongyang |publisher=Foreign Languages Publishing House|edition=Continuing|oclc=917836284 }}
- {{cite book|last1=Scalapino|first1=Robert A.|last2=Lee|first2=Chong-Sik|title=Communism in Korea: The society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g2M_yhsWc6gC&pg=PA1521|volume=2|year=1972|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=978-0-520-02274-4}}
{{Women in North Korean politics}}
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