Pak Chang-ok
Pak Chang-ok was a North Korean official and was a leader of the Soviet Korean faction of the party, with members being mainly ethnic Koreans born in Soviet Union, after the suicide of their first leader, Ho Ka-i.
Pak was a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and the Chairman of the State Planning Commission. He was appointed Vice-Premier of North Korea in March 1954.
Pak formed an alliance Choe Chang-ik and the Yanan Korean faction of the party to criticize Kim Il-sung in 1956, but was expelled following Kim's return from the Soviet Union. Pak died in 1960.Works cited
