# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/no-kum-sok
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:58:51.707Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/no-kum-sok"
name: "No Kum-sok"
slug: "no-kum-sok"
description: "No Kum-sok was a North Korean–born American engineer and aviator who served as a senior lieutenant in the Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force during the Korean War. Under colonial rule, No was required to adopt a Japanese name, Okamura Kiyoshi. Approximately two months after the end of hostilities, he defected to South Korea in a MiG-15 aircraft, and was subsequently granted political asylum in the United States. He then adopted the English name Kenneth H. Rowe."
tagline: "North Korean Air Force officer (1932–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/No_Kum-Sok.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-01-10"
deathDate: "2022-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.416828
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "盧今錫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "نو كوم سوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "نو كوم سوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-sok"
    title: "No Kum-sok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-sok"
    title: "No Kum-sok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-sok"
    title: "No Kum-sok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-sok"
    title: "No Kum-sok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-sok"
    title: "No Kum-sok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-sok"
    title: "No Kum-sok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-sok"
    title: "No Kum-sok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9B%A7%E4%BB%8A%E9%8C%AB"
    title: "盧今錫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%85%B8%EA%B8%88%EC%84%9D"
    title: "노금석"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kumsoks"
    title: "No Kumsoks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-sok"
    title: "No Kum-sok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE_%D0%93%D1%8B%D0%BC_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BA"
    title: "Но Гым Сок"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-Sok"
    title: "No Kum-Sok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%99_%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B6%E0%B8%A1-%E0%B8%8B%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%81"
    title: "โน กึม-ซ็อก"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q497141"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump