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Ho Hon 허헌 From civil-rights lawyer of the March 1st Movement to first Chairman of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly: a progressive nationalist Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of South Korea 1885–1951
Kim Tu-bong 김두봉 Independence activist, linguist, and Yan'an faction leader who served as the first head of state of the DPRK Political and party leadership · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 1889–1958?
Pak Hon-yong 박헌영 Architect of the Korean Communist Party's rebirth; leader of the Workers' Party of South Korea Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Korea 1900–1955
Choe Yong-gon 최용건 The Manchurian guerrilla who became the KPA's first commander and the DPRK's nominal head of state Military command · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 1900–1976
Kim Chaek 김책 Korean revolutionary military leader who fought alongside Kim Il Sung in the Manchurian anti-Japanese guerrillas Military command · Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 1903–1951
Kim Il Sung 김일성 The founder of North Korea returned from the Soviet Far East Political and party leadership · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 1912–1994
Kim Jong Il 김정일 The successor between a Soviet birth record and the Paektu myth Political and party leadership · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 1941–2011
Ch'oe Ch'ang-ik 최창익 Yan'an faction leader who drove the 1946 New People's Party merger and was purged in the August Faction Incident Political and party leadership · New People's Party of Korea 1896/1898–1957/1960