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Pak Yong Sok Passes Away

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

   Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- Pak Yong Sok, member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and chairman of the Control Commission of the WPK Central Committee, died of prostate gland cancer on March 17, Juche 96 (2007), at the age of 80.
    The WPK Central Committee and the SPA Presidium issued an obituary of his death on Saturday.
    According to it, Pak was born into a revolutionary family in the period when Korea was under the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists and grew into an able official under the care of President Kim Il Sung after the liberation of the country and had devotedly worked for the development of the WPK and socialist construction.
    He had been active as a member of the leading organ of the WPK Central Committee and deputy to the SPA for many years and received many official commendations including the title of Labor Hero and the Kim Il Sung Order, the highest order of the DPRK, for his feats for the country and the revolution. The obituary said that he had been boundlessly faithful to the WPK until the last moments of his life and his feats for the party, the revolution, the country and the people would remain long.