Kyung-Ho Haek



Kyung-Ho Haek (January 18, 2502-) is the de facto leader and founder of the Workers' Party of Dolgaria (WPD). Known as a radical orator, and extreme figure in Dolgarian politics, he has garnered both timid respect and vociferous criticism from both the media and political critics. Kyung-Ho Haek holds the two most powerful positions in the party, as Chairman of the WPD Politiburo, and as joint Head of the WPD Directorate, which he shares with his political ally, Ja Bak-Sung. He is known for his long speeches in Senate, and for his wild-eyed tirades against pacifists, internationalists and "bourgeous liberals".

Life
Kyung-Ho Haek was born in 2502 into a farming family of Korean minority origin, and they neither very poor nor comfortably well-off, but was always a step away from poverty. He was raised in a Protestant Christian family with strong ties to the church: his maternal grandfather was a Protestant minister, his father had gone to a missionary school, and both his parents were reportedly very active in the religious community. When his father died, he became interested in Communist ideology, especially Maoist communism that stressed the importance of the agrarian worker. Rgather than carry on the family farm, he left this to his brothers, and set off to study in the capital.

At university, Kyung-Ho associated with other radical communists, and came to embrace the ideology of Juche: communistic autarky and self-reliance. He became involved in several militant student groups, and proved himself as both hot-headed and a capable leader. Reports of his rages were as common as his intelligence, and his peers both feared as respected him.

After a brief stint in the military as a Junior Officer, Kyung-Ho return to Dolgaria to pursue a career in radical politics, hoping to overthrow representative democracy in favour of a more centralised society.

Juche
As a political philosopher, Haek is known to promote a Communist doctrine known as Juche, which roughly translates as "self-reliance". It is a fusion of ultra-nationalism, economic independence, and Communistic classless society. Haek heralds it as an up-and-coming political ideology that will sweep the nation, and is known to frequently quote from his book "On the Juche Idea".

Political commentators have derided Juche as an extremist ideology, that would pass control of the state into Haek's hands, and have criticised it as "deeply and purely undemocratic and dangerous". Others have interpreted Juche as another display of Haek's feelings of self-importance, and an interpretation of old ideas fused together.

Personal Life
Haek has married twice. His first wife, Kyung-Ho An, was a peasant girl whom he married when he was sixteen. They had three daughters together, and enjoyed a twenty-five year long marriage. They divorced when Kyung-Ho Haek met his second wife, Kim Song-O, twenty years his junior, at a political seminar that Kyung-Ho Haek was holding on the Juche Idea. Kim Song-O is currently running for the office of Finance Minister on a WPD ticket.