Kim Ung

Kim Ung
Chosŏn'gŭl 김웅
Hancha 金雄
Revised Romanization Gim Ung
McCune–Reischauer Kim Ung
Alternative name
Chosŏn'gŭl 왕신호
Hancha 王信虎
Revised Romanization Wang Sinho
McCune–Reischauer Wang Sinho
This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.

Kim Ung (16 October 1910/1912 in Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang – ?) was a North Korean general and vice-minister of defence.[1][2] He was a member of the Yan'an faction.

Chinese military

Kim fled Korea to avoid the Japanese occupation, and was trained at the Whampoa Military Academy in the late 1920s or early 1930s. He became a communist and probably was on the Long March. During the late 1930s and the 1940s he was in the Eighth Route Army and became brigadier or divisional commander.[1]

Korean war

On the outbreak of war, 25 June 1950, Kim was a lieutenant general commanding 1 Corps of the Korean People's Army (KPA).[1] On the death in action of Lieutenant General Kong Kang Kim succeeded him as chief of staff to General Kim Ch'aek, front commander.

By 1951 Kim Ung was KPA front commander,[3] succeeding Kim Ch'aek, who was purged for his failure at the Incheon Landing, Kim Ung held the post until the end of the war.[1]

Post war

After the war Kim Ung was appointed vice defence minister of North Korea. In 1958 he was purged by Kim Il-sung, rehabilitated and purged again in 1978.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Spencer Tucker (2003). Who's Who in Twentieth Century Warfare. Routledge. pp. 168–9. ISBN 9781134565153.
  2. Kim, Seonguk. "김웅(金雄)" [Kim Ung] (in Korean). Academy of Korean Studies. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  3. Rober M. Collins (2014). "Korean Peoples Army". The Ashgate Research Companion to the Korean War. Ashgate research companions. Professor Donald W Boose Jr, Professor James I Matray (editors). Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 257. ISBN 9781472405838.


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