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Gi, Seok-bok

Gi Seok-bok was the President of the DPRK Military Academy before returning to the Soviet Union in 1957.

Biography

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Soviet-Korean Gi Seok-bok (기석복), also Romanized as Ki Sok Pok, was conscripted into the Soviet Army in August 1945. He worked as an interpreter for the Soviet Army’s Political Division. Until end of the 1946, he worked with the Soviet special advisors on the formation of the Korean People’s Army. In the beginning of 1947, he was named as the Principal of the military political school and held the chief military title until January 1948. He was transferred to the Korean Workers’ Party Central Committee’s Department of Agitation and Propaganda in February 1948.

In 1955, Gi Seok-bok became the President of the Military Academy by order of the Supreme People’s Assembly. He served in that position for approximately one and a half years before being relieved and transferred to oversee a publishing house in the wake of attacks on Soviet-Korean cadres. Gi returned to the Soviet Union in 1957.

Popular Documents

May 31, 1956

Memorandum of Conversation with Gi Seok-bok

Discusses the attempts to dispel the rumors that Kim Il Sung's cult of personality exists in DPRK.

December 29, 1955

Journal of Soviet Ambassador to the DPRK V. I. Ivanov for 29 December 1955

Nam Il reports to Ivanov the proceedings of the most recent KWP CC Presidium. Several Soviet Korean party members, active in the literature and propaganda fields, presented their self-criticisms at the meeting.

December 4, 1955

Journal of Soviet Ambassador to the DPRK V. I. Ivanov for 4 December 1955

DPRK Vice Premier Pak Ui-wan and Minister of Construction Kim Seung-hwa report to Ivanov about the KWP CC plenum decision to expel Pak Il-u and Kim Yeol from the party and the Central Committee. The conversation touches on the issue of a group of Soviet Korean members who have been accused of supporting anti-Party reactionary writers.

December 6, 1955

Journal of Soviet Ambassador to the DPRK V. I. Ivanov for 6 December 1955

Nam Il tells Ivanov that Kim Il Sung is actively working to settle the issue of citizenship among Soviet Koreans in the party. Kim acknowledges that granting them citizenship could help ease relations between them and local Koreans. Nam insists that Kim does not believe that the Soviet Koreans are ill-intentioned.

October 10, 1995

Gi Seok-bok Biography

Soviet-Korean Gi Seok-bok (Ki Sok Pok) was conscripted into the Soviet Army in August 1945 and was an important figure during the Soviet occupation of North Korea. In the wake of attacks on Soviet-Korean cadres in the mid-1950s, Gi returned to the Soviet Union in 1957.