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.
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No as a toddler in 1935, with his father, who was a baseball player.
No meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon at the U.S. Capitol in May 1954.
No's MiG-15 at Gimpo Airport on September 21, 1953, minutes after No's defection and arrival.
No's MiG-15 on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
No interviewed by the National Museum of the United States Air Force in 2018Academics born in the 1930s 6
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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.
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