Ri Yu-min

Ri Yu-min
Ri Yu-min
이유민
Vice Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly
	In office; 22 December 1953 – 20 September 1957
Personal details
Born	1914; Boseong County, Zenranan-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan
Died	Pyongyang, North Korea
Citizenship	North Korea
Political party	Workers' Party of Korea
Alma mater	Dongje University
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl	이유민
Hancha	李維民
Revised Romanization	I Yumin
McCune–Reischauer	I Yumin

Ri Yu-min (Korean: 이유민; Hanja: 李維民; 1914 – after 1958) was a North Korean politician who was a member of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's unicameral parliament.

Biography

Born in Boseong County, Zenranan-dō (today's South Jeolla Province), he went into exile in Shanghai, China in 1932 and studied at the German department of Dongje University.^[1] He joined the Chinese Communist Party and led the Revolutionary Comrades' Association (October Association), which was formed in Nanjing in August 1935. In July 1942, he was elected as a member of the central executive committee and head of the organization departm-nt of th- North China Korean Independence Alliance, formed at the base of the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountains.^[1] In March 1948 he was elected as a member of the 2nd Central Committee of the 2nd Congress of the Workers' Party of North Korea, and in August he became a delegate to the 1st convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly as well as vice chairman of that body from 22 December 1953 to 20 September 1957.^[2]^[3] In October 1950, during the Korean War, he accompanied Pak Hon-yong to visit Beijing. In April 1956, he was elected a member of the 3rd Central Committee of the 3rd Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea. In the 1957 parliamentary election he was re-elected to the 2nd convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly.^[4]^[5] In 1958, he was dismissed for his involvement in the purge of the Yan'an faction.^[6]^[1]

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^ Suh 1981, p. 392.
^ Suh 1981, p. 393.
^ Suh 1981, p. 402–5.
^ Tertitskiy, Fyodor (19 September 2017). "1959: Secret elections in North Korea". Daily NK. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
^ 현대사 아리랑]백발백중 조선의용군 총사령 무정 (상) (in Korean). Kyunghyang Shinmun. 2008-11-11. Retrieved 2024-02-27.

Books:

Suh, Dae-sook (1981). Korean Communism 1945–1980: A Reference Guide to the Political System (1st ed.). University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0-8248-0740-5.