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# Hwang Jang-yop 황장엽 

head teacher

dead Died aged 87 

Hwang Jang-yop was a North Korean politician who defected to South Korea. He served as the Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly from 1972 to 1983 and was largely responsible for crafting Juche, the state ideology of North Korea. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang%5FJang-yop)

Born

1923-02-17, Kangdong County

Died

2010-10-10, Seoul, South Korea (myocardial infarction)

Height

Unknown 

Weight

Unknown 

Status as of

2010-10-10[source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang%5FJang-yop)

Also known as

Hwang Jang-yop

## Positions

1. ?–now head teacher[source](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471135)
2. ?–now member of the Supreme People's Assembly[source](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471135)

Machine-readable: [/api/people/hwang-jang-yop](https://savenorthkorea.org/api/people/hwang-jang-yop) · [Wikidata Q471135](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471135) · Photo: [Straitgate / Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hwang%5FJang%5FYeop.jpg) (Public domain)