Yi, Sang-jo
21pBiographical sketch of Yi Sang-jo, a prominent Soviet Korean military and diplomatic figure.
Document
PDF sourced from the Library of Congress Korean Rare Book Collection. 21 pages.
Transcription — handwritten Korean, first pass in progress
This document is a handwritten Korean manuscript (and in some cases photocopied typed pages) from a collection compiled 1995–2001. Full transcription requires manual reading or AI vision-based OCR of the scanned pages. Transcription is in progress.
Translation / Context — first pass
Handwritten Korean manuscript — first-pass transcription in progress. Yi Sang-jo (이상조) was a significant figure: a Korean People's Army general and later North Korea's Ambassador to the Soviet Union. He was one of the leaders of the August Factional Incident (1956), in which Soviet-aligned and Chinese-aligned party members challenged Kim Il-sung's authority at the Third KWP Congress. After the incident failed, Yi defected to the Soviet Union rather than return to North Korea. He later defected again to South Korea. His 21-page entry reflects his high historical importance.