[KS] Mu Chong

[Balazs Szalontai]

Dear All,

I have a question concerning the death of Mu Chong, a prominent member of the so-called Yan'an faction in North Korea. In secondary literature it is usually stated that Mu, having been dismissed at the end of 1950 because of the KPA's serious setbacks, went to China and died there (supposedly from natural causes). However, a Hungarian archival document written in 1965, which describes the history of the Korean Communist movement from the beginning to 1964, states that Mu Chong "and some others" were executed "a few months after the outbreak of the war." Is there any way to know which version is closer to the truth?

Yours sincerely,
Balazs Szalontai
Central European University
Department of History
e-mail: hphszb01 at phd.ceu.hu