Pak Chang Ok

Who is Pak Chang Ok?

Pak Chang Ok was a North Korean official and was General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Pak was a leader of the Soviet Korean faction of the party, with members being mainly ethnic Koreans born in Russia, after the suicide of their first leader, Alexei Ivanovich Hegay. He was also a member of the Central Committee.

Pak formed an alliance Choe Chang Ik and the Chinese Korean or Yanan Korean faction of the party to criticize Kim Il-sung in 1956, but was expelled following the return of Kim from the Soviet Union. He died in 1960.