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Yi Sung-yop | |
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 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 | 8 February 1905 Keiki-dō (Gyeonggi Province), Korea, Empire of Japan |
| Died | 30 July 1954 (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]