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Vice Marshal Paek Hak Rim Dies

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, October 6 (KCNA) -- Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Paek Hak Rim, member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, died of brain hemorrhage at the age of 87 at 2 p.m. on October 5, Juche 95 (2006). The Central Committee of the WPK and its Central Military Commission released his obituary Thursday.
    According to his obituary, he was a revolutionary soldier loyal to the party, who devoted his all to the struggle for the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche.
    He courageously fought after joining in the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle commanded by President Kim Il Sung.
    After the country's liberation, he waged a dynamic struggle to defend the gains of the revolution as an able military commanding officer.
    During the Fatherland Liberation War he defended with his life the party and the leader and commanded the servicepersons in the battle to wipe out the enemy, thus contributing to the victory in the war.
    Holding responsible posts in the People's Army and the People's Security organ for years, he devotedly worked to bolster the KPA as invincible revolutionary armed forces and defend the Juche-based socialist system, true to the WPK's Songun revolutionary leadership.
    He worked as member of the leadership body of the WPK Central Committee and deputy to the SPA for years.
    He received the titles of Twice Hero of the Republic and Hero of Labor and "Kim Il Sung Order," the highest order of the republic, and many other state citations for the merits performed for the country and the revolution.
    Firmly armed with the WPK's Juche idea, Songun idea, Paek Hak Rim remained intensely loyal to the party's leadership and dedicated his all to the struggle for the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche till the last moments of his life.