and was assigned directly to Colonel Gromov, head of the political department under General Ivan Chistyakov who commanded 25th Army Corps.
In the early days, he worked as an interpreter for the Soviet military's political department and was instrumental in the installation of the pro-soviet government in the North.
In 1948 he became a member of the 2nd Standing Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea,[1] and from 1948 to 1950 he served as chief editor of Kulloja magazine.
And Ki Seok-bok, who saw the brutal deaths of those stamped by Kim Il Sung after the sectarian incident in August, abandoned all hope and left North Korea with his sons in November 1957.
Ki Sok-bok, who arrived in Moscow eight days after crossing the Soviet-Manchurian border and settled in the Uzbek SSR where he lived until his death in 1979 from liver cancer.