Sun Il Ch Ng

Chŏng Sangjin (Korean: 정상진; May 5, 1918 – June 15, 2013) was a Soviet poet, bureaucrat, academic, and military officer. He was the only ethnic Korean among 60 Soviet paratroopers that first liberated parts of Korea under Japanese rule during World War II. He was also known by his Russian name Yuri Danilovich Ten (Russian: Юрий Данилович Тен) or the Korean nickname derived from "Yuri", Ryul (률). His name is also Cyrillized as Ten San Din (Тен Сан Дин). He stayed in North Korea on orders from the …