Hwang Jang-yop
1923 – 2010 North Korea
politician
Who was Hwang Jang-yop?
Former North Korean politician who served as Workers' Party secretary for ideology before defecting to South Korea in 1997. He was the highest-ranking North Korean official ever to defect.
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Hwang Jang-yop (CC BY-SA 4.0).