Yi Sung-yop

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Yi Sung-yop
Yi Sung-yop in 1950
Chairman of the People's Control Commission
1st Cabinet of North Korea
In office 8 May 1952 – 3 March 1953
Premier	Kim Il Sung
Preceded by	Choe Chang-ik
Succeeded by	Yi Ki-sok
Second Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee
2nd Central Committee
In office 24 June 1949 – 2 July 1953
Chairman	Kim Il Sung
1st Secretary	Ho Ka-i
3rd Secretary	Kim Sam-yong
Minister of Justice
1st Cabinet of North Korea
In office 9 September 1948 – 13 December 1951
Premier	Kim Il Sung
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Yi Yong
Personal details
Born	(1905-02-08)8 February 1905 Keiki-dō (Gyeonggi Province), Korea, Empire of Japan
Died	30 July 1954(1954-07-30) (aged 49)
Political party	Workers' Party of Korea
Education	Incheon High School of Commerce

Yi Sung-yop (Korean: 리승엽; February 8, 1905 – July 30, 1954) was a communist activist during the Japanese occupation of Korea and a politician during the early years of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).

He was early involved in the founding of the Communist Party of Korea and was an aide of Pak Hon-yong, and he participated in workers’ strike activities throughout the 1930s. He participated in the founding of the Workers' Party of South Korea in 1946 after the liberation of August 15 following the surrender of Japan. In addition, he served as a member of first and second CC of the WPK, and afterwards held the positions of the North Korean Workers' Party's political chairman (the second North Korean Workers' Party's political chairman) and the People's Censorship Committee (the new first North Korean Workers' Party's People's Censorship Committee). After the formal establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea he served in the first North Korean Cabinet as the first Minister of Justice, and then served as Deputy Secretary-General of the Cabinet and National Censorship Office. In 1953, Park Heon-young was sentenced to death in the US espionage case, and was convicted of execution on July 30, 1954.^[1]