Kim Tu-bong
Kim Du- bong ( born March 16, 1886, the municipality Dongnae -gu of the city Busan, Korea, † 1957-1961? ) Was a North Korean politician.
Kim Du- bong was in the time when Korea was a province of Japan, active in the anti-Japanese Samil Movement, which sought independence of Korea. After the banning of the movement, he fled to Shanghai. In the Chinese exile, he took part at Long March of the Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong. Later he joined the Korean guerrillas that operated from China for the independence of Korea.
In August 1942, Kim founded the Korean Independence League and after the surrender of Japan in September 1945, the New People's Party, which later merged with the Korean Communist Party of the Workers 'Party of North Korea, the predecessor of the Workers' Party of Korea, merged. Kim was the chairman of the newly formed party. From 1947 to 1948 he was also Chairman of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea.
After the proclamation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea ) 1948 Kim became a member of the Politburo of the Party of Labour of Korea. From 1948 to 1957 he was Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, and thus formally head of state of North Korea.
In March 1958, Kim was criticized at a party conference, relieved of all state and party offices and expelled from the party. He probably died in 1961 in the LPG Sun'an in the province P'yŏngan - namdo as a cooperative farmer from a disease. The overthrow Kim was part of a large-scale purge in the late 1950s, which was directed against the Korean communists who had returned from exile in China or the Soviet Union to Korea or came out of the American-occupied southern Korea to the north. Kim Il-sung, who was working at that time to consolidate his autocratic rule over North Korea, distrusted these groups.