Yon Hyong-Muk (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yon Hyong-muk, also spelt as Yong Hyong-muk (November 3, 1931 - October 23, 2005) was a longserving politician in North Korea and at the height of his career the most powerful person in that country outside the Kim family. He was premier of North Korea from 1989 until 1992. He was born in Kyongwon County and had a strong revolutionary background in his family. Although details about his early childhood are not well-known, it is known than Yon was educated in Czechoslovakia and by the 1950s he was firmly established within the hierarchy of the Korea Workers' Party, which became the only political party in North Korea after the Korean War ended. By 1968, after one of several purges to occur during Kim Il Sung's long reign, Yon was established as one of Kim's most trusted comrades and had become a secretary of the Central Committee of the Party.