By Kim Sue-young
Staff Reporter
Yo Won-gu, a delegate to the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament, and chairwoman of the North's Democratic Front of the Unification of the Fatherland, has died, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported Friday. She was 81.
Yo was the third daughter of Yo Un-hyong, an independence fighter and a politician who was assassinated in 1947 while pushing for a combined group of rightists and leftists following the nation's liberation from the Japanese colonial period.
The news agency, however, did not mention details such as when she died and the cause of her death.
A native of Seoul, she studied in Moscow for eight years in the 1940s and taught students at Kimchaek University of Technology in Pyongyang.
She also worked as vice chairman of the North's Education Committee, equivalent to South Korea's vice education minister, and vice speaker of the parliament.
She visited Seoul on Aug. 15, 2002, on the occasion of Liberation Day and paid a visit to her father's grave in northern Seoul.