Pak Nam-gi explained

Hangul:박남기
Context:north
Mr:Pak Namgi
Rr:Bak Namgi

Pak Nam-gi or Park Nam-ki (21 February 1934 – 17 March 2010) was, until as late as January 2010,[1] Director of the Planning and Finance Department of the ruling party of North Korea. There are doubts about his date of birth, with at least two unattributed sources[2] [3] reporting it as 21 February 1934 or sometime in 1928 respectively.

In March 2010, it was reported by news agencies including Yonhap,[4] Bloomberg,[5] and The Guardian[6] that Pak had been tried and then executed by firing squad in Pyongyang for the offense of being "a son of a bourgeois conspiring to infiltrate the ranks of revolutionaries to destroy the national economy". According to the Guardian, he had been denounced as a traitor during a meeting in January 2010 and arrested on the spot. This related to the devaluation of the North Korean won in November 2009, which led to a crisis after rendering valueless many people's savings.[7] [8] Following his execution, Pak was subsequently edited out of various official films and photographs.[9]

Although John Park, a Stanton junior faculty fellow at MIT, claimed in 2012 that Pak Nam-gi is still alive and had resurfaced after his alleged execution,[10] Ri Je-gang, the former First Deputy Head of the WPK Organization and Guidance Department, says Pak Nam-gi was executed by firing squad in the course of a reactionary purge in 2010.[11]

In December 2013 when Jang Sung-taek, uncle of supreme leader Kim Jong-un, was executed, amongst the charges against Jang was that Jang had been the "wirepuller behind the scene" of "Pak Nam Gi, traitor for all ages".[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Park Nam Ki Arrested for Currency Debacle: sources. 17 March 2010. Daily NK. 20 March 2010.
  2. Web site: (Japanese language source) . 18 March 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080928160055/http://www.piks.or.tv/person/person/paknamgi.htm . September 28, 2008 .
  3. Web site: Who Hangs With Kim Jong-il. 14 April 2009 . 20 March 2010.
  4. Web site: N. Korean technocrat executed for bungled currency reform: sources. March 18, 2010. . 2010-03-18.
  5. Web site: Kim Jong-il 'Suffers Depression'. The Chosun Ilbo, English edition. 3 March 2010. 18 March 2010.
  6. News: North Korean finance chief executed for botched currency reform. The Guardian. 18 March 2010 . London . Tania . Branigan.
  7. News: North Koreans dare to protest as devaluation wipes out savings. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-koreans-dare-to-protest-as-devaluation-wipes-out-savings-1833156.html . 2022-05-24 . subscription . live. The Independent. 3 December 2009 . London . David . McNeill.
  8. News: North Korean official Pak Nam-ki executed for disastrous currency reform. 18 March 2010. Times Online. 18 March 2010 . London.
  9. https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2918364
  10. News: Death by firing squad in North Korea?. Foreign Policy. 24 December 2012. 10 March 2017. 22 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141122144921/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/24/death_by_firing_squad_in_north_korea. dead.
  11. Web site: Secret Report Throws Light on N.Korean Purges. 1 November 2012. Nov 27, 2012 .
  12. Alastair Gale (12 December 2013), What North Korea Said About Jang Song Thaek The Wall Street Journal

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