Pak Song-ch'ol

Education

Student, Soviet Military College, 1948-1950.

Career

In emigration in China, 1921-1945. Activist Anti-Japanese Movement, from 1931. Member Kim Il Sen's partisan units, Manchuria.

Deputy commander marine forces Korean War. Korean ambassador to Bulgaria, 1945. Deputy minister foreign affairs, head foreign department.Korean Workers Party.

Minster foreign affairs, 1959-1970. Deputy prime minister, 1966-1970. Deputy chairman Council of Ministers, chairman Committee of Serviceto the People, 1970-1976.

Prime minister Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1976-1977, vice president, since 1977.

Achievements

• Pak Song-ch"ol has been listed as a noteworthy Vice president of Republic of of Korea by Marquis Who's Who.