Hwang Jang-Yop, a high level member of the North Korean government during the Kim Il-Sung era who helped develop the Juche ideology with Kim Il-Sung and famously defected to South Korea in 1997, died on October 10th. DailyNK has a nice special on Hwang and his lessons about North Korea (see the “Related Articles” from this page). The death is being ruled as not suspicious, but an autopsy will be performed. Great information on the life of Hwang Jang-Yop can be found on his Wikipedia page.
Source: Daily NK
