One of the interesting parts of North Korean history is the number of officials who have, over the years, perished in car accidents: cases that often look quite suspicious and raise rumors about deliberate assassinations. In this article, I’ve tried to collect the biographies of the members of the North Korean elite whose lives ended in automobile accidents.

Nam Il

Born Yakov Petrovich Nam, Nam Il is one of the most interesting figures in early DPRK history. Born in the Russian Far East, during the Stalin years he worked as a teacher. In 1946, he went work in the Soviet