Pak Yong-sun (politician)

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.

[1] According to his recollections, he first met Kim Il Sung around this time, in November 1932 while he was in a secret munitions workshop, who encouraged him to further the process of constructing weaponry.

[3] As a result, he became a member of the guerilla unit in the Yanji area under Kim Il Sung from 1934.

[4] In 1945, during the liberation of Korea, he marched into Pyongyang as part of the 88th brigade of independence, Far Eastern Army.

[2][1] 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.