Kim Kwang-hyop

Korean independence movement Chinese Civil War World War II Korean War Kim Kwang-hyop (Korean: 김광협, 1915–1970) was an anti-Japanese activist and a military officer and politician of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (commonly, North Korea).

He served as Chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army.

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.

After the fall of the Japanese Empire, he became the commander of the military district of the Northeast Democratic Army of the pro-Soviet Provisional People's Committee of North Korea.

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.