O Jung-hup | |
Chosŏn'gŭl | 오중흡 |
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Hancha | |
Revised Romanization | O Jung-heup |
McCune–Reischauer | O Chung-hŭp |
O Jung-hup (10 July 1910 – 17 December 1939) was a Korean military officer who fought the Japanese with Kim Il Sung.
O was born into a poor family in Seson-ri, Onsong County of North Hamgyong Province, on 10 July 1910.[1] Leading the 7th Regiment of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, he was killed in action during the Liukesong battle in Dunhua County on 17 December 1939, aged 29.[2]
Main article: O family |
The O family are influential in the North Korean regime.[3] As of 2012[update], his nephew O Kuk-ryol was vice-chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK.[4]
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