Kim Yong-bom

Kim Yong-bom
김용범(金鎔範)
Chairman of the Central Inspection Commission of the Workers' Party of North Korea
In office
31 August 1946 – 7 September 1947
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byChang Sun-myong
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Korea
In office
13 October 1945 – 18 December 1946
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byKim Tu-bong
Personal details
Born(1902-08-18)18 August 1902
Died7 September 1947(1947-09-07) (aged 45)
North Korea
PartyWorkers' Party of North Korea
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of Korea (1925–1946)
SpousePak Chong-ae
Military service
Allegiance North Korea
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Kim Yong-bom (18 August 1902 – 7 September 1947) was a North Korean revolutionary and politician who led the Communist Party between 1945 and 1947.

In the early 1930s, Kim studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow, where he met the communist and feminist organizer Pak Chong-ae. Kim and Pak would return to Korea in 1932 "in disguise as a couple" and later went on to marry. He was made Secretary of the North Korean Branch Bureau of the Communist Party of Korea in 1945 after the assassination of Hyŏn Chunhyŏk. This makes Kim the first leader of the current-day Workers' Party of Korea.