Education
Born in 1898 at Ulsan, in 1920 he moved to Japan and studied mathematics at Nihon University in Tokyo.
金天海
Born in 1898 at Ulsan, in 1920 he moved to Japan and studied mathematics at Nihon University in Tokyo.
He was subsequently a politician in North of Korea, holding posts connected to the Workers" Party of of Korea. While there, he organized a Korean workers" movement and was elected chairman of the Federal Union of Zainichi Koreans. Although the League of Koreans was founded as a non-political organization, his appointment as supreme adviser ensured its drift toward the left.
In 1951, Edward Wagner described Kim as "the man who probably is to be credited more than any other with shaping the League"s political orientation and preserving its undeviating character".
He remained in the Front"s presidium through the first half of the 1960s. North Korean official sources state that Kim died in 1969, but the actual date and circumstances of his death are unknown.
Under Kim"s influence, the League purged its anti-communist members and in February 1946 it joined the Korean Democratic National Front. He subsequently moved to North of Korea in 1950 and became a member of the Central Committee of the Workers" Party of of Korea, and from April 1956 he served as chairman of the Fatherland Front.
Detained as a political prisoner, he was released on 10 October 1945 after Japan"s defeat in the Second World War, and became a member of the executive committee of the JCP.