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a contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 early life and education 2 career toggle career subsection 2 1 korean war 2 2 defection 2 3 no s mig 15 3 post defection life 4 personal life 5 references toggle references subsection 5 1 bibliography 6 external links toggle the table of contents no kum sok 16 languages العربية مصرى čeština deutsch español suomi français italiano 日本語 한국어 latviešu polski русский slovenščina ไทย 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia korean american aviator 1932 2022 in this korean name the family name is no no kum sok no in 1953 born no kum sok 1932 01 10 january 10 1932 shinko kankyōnan dō korea empire of japan now sinhung county south hamgyong province north korea died december 26 2022 2022 12 26 aged 90 daytona beach florida u s military career allegiance north korea defected branch korean people s army air force korean people s navy service years 1949 1953 rank senior lieutenant conflicts korean war no kum sok hangul 노금석 hanja 盧今錫 rr no geumseok mr no kŭmsŏk no kum sok korean 노금석 january 10 1932 december 26 2022 1 2 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 3 4 under colonial rule no was required to adopt a japanese name okamura kiyoshi 3 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 5 he then adopted the english name kenneth h rowe early life and education edit no as a toddler in 1935 with his father who was a baseball player no was born on january 10 1932 in shinko kankyōnan dō korea empire of japan now in north korea during world war ii no supported japan and considered becoming a kamikaze pilot but his father was adamantly against it no s support for imperial japan waned and he became pro american though he had to hide these views due to the dangers of being recognized in northern korea at the time according to no he attended a speech by kim il sung in early 1948 as a teenager although no was opposed to communism he found kim to be a capable orator 6 however no had to keep his anti communist views hidden due to the danger of what would happen if north korean authorities had found out about them career edit a u s newsreel from 1954 covering no s arrival in the country no meeting with vice president richard nixon at the u s capitol in may 1954 korean war edit during the korean war no applied to join the korean people s navy and was accepted after he lied in the selection test at the naval academy no won the favor of his history professor who later helped no in the pilot selection test after passing the selection test no was promoted to ensign and brought to manchuria for flight training he subsequently received promotion to the rank of lieutenant and then to senior lieutenant he flew more than 100 combat missions during the war 7 defection edit no s mig 15 at gimpo airport on september 21 1953 minutes after no s defection and arrival on the morning of september 21 1953 no flew his mikoyan gurevich mig 15 from sunan just outside pyongyang to kimpo air base in south korea 8 9 the time from take off in north korea to landing in south korea was 17 minutes with the mig reaching 1 000 km h 620 mph 10 during the flight he was not chased by north korean aircraft as he was too far away nor was he interdicted by american air or ground forces 10 u s radar near kimpo had been shut down temporarily that morning for routine maintenance 4 no landed the wrong way on the runway almost hitting an f 86 sabre jet landing at the same time from the opposite direction 9 10 captain dave william veered out of the way and exclaimed over the radio it s a goddamn mig 10 another american pilot captain jim sutton who was circling the airport said that if no had tried to land in the right direction he would have been spotted and shot down 10 no taxied the mig into a free parking spot between two sabre jets got out of the plane and began tearing up a picture of kim il sung that was placed in the cockpits of north korean aircraft and then threw up his arms in surrender at approaching airbase security guards 10 after being taken into custody and debriefed by cia operative andy brown born arseny yankovsky son of yuri yankovsky no received a 100 000 equivalent to 1 203 358 in 2025 reward offered by operation moolah for being the first pilot to defect with an operational aircraft which he said he never heard of prior to his defection 11 no explained that north korean pilots were not allowed to listen to south korean radio the leaflets broadcasting the award were not dropped in manchuria where the pilots were based and even if they had heard about the reward the pilots would not have understood the purchasing power of the us dollar he said the program would have been more effective if they had offered a good job and residence in north america president dwight d eisenhower was against paying defectors 12 no s mig 15 edit no s mig 15 on display at the national museum of the united states air force after no surrendered his aircraft it was taken to okinawa where it was given usaf markings and test flown by captain h e collins and major chuck yeager the mig 15 was later shipped to wright patterson air force base after a u s offer to return it to its rightful owner was ignored 8 it is currently on display at the national museum of the united states air force post defection life edit no interviewed by the national museum of the united states air force in 2018 in 1954 no immigrated to the united states where he met vice president richard nixon after immigrating he anglicized his name to kenneth h rowe 1 in 1957 he was joined in the u s by his mother who had defected to south korea earlier in 1951 he subsequently graduated from the university of delaware with degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering 4 he married an émigré from kaesong north korea they raised two sons and a daughter and he became a u s citizen 4 he worked as an aeronautical engineer for grumman boeing pan am general dynamics general motors general electric lockheed dupont and westinghouse 4 11 13 there were repercussions for no s defection according to captain lee un yong a flight instructor with the korean people s army air and anti air force who defected to south korea two years after no in the 1970s general wan yong the top commander of the korean people s army air and anti air force was demoted and five of no s comrades and commanders in the air force were executed among those killed was lieutenant kun soo sung no s best friend and fellow pilot no s parents would have also faced punishment for their son s defection however his father had already died in the korean war and his mother had defected to the south the fate of no s uncle and the rest of his family remains unknown 14 one of the pilots and a friend in his squadron o kuk ryol became a general and was considered by some the second most powerful man in north korea 4 11 in 1996 he wrote and published a book a mig 15 to freedom about his defection and previous life in north korea 1 no retired in 2000 after working 17 years as an aeronautical engineering professor at embry riddle aeronautical university 4 15 a biography of no by blaine harden was published in 2015 as the great leader and the fighter pilot the true story of the tyrant who created north korea and the young lieutenant who stole his way to freedom 16 harden had interviewed no and had access to newly released intelligence about him 17 personal life edit no spoke fluent english japanese korean and russian 18 he lived in daytona beach florida where he died on december 26 2022 at the age of 90 2 no stated that he never second guessed his decision to defect from north korea and make a new life in america 3 at the time of his death no was surrounded by his wife daughter younger son and one grandson 2 references edit 1 2 3 rowe kenneth h no kum sok osterholm j roger 1996 a mig 15 to freedom mcfarland company inc isbn 0 7864 0210 5 archived from the original on august 24 2023 retrieved september 22 2013 1 2 3 goldstein richard january 5 2023 kenneth rowe who defected from north korea with his jet dies at 90 the new york times issn 0362 4331 archived from the original on january 6 2023 retrieved january 6 2023 1 2 3 this florida man escaped from north korea in a mig 15 fighter jet public radio international archived from the original on august 23 2018 retrieved november 4 2018 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 lowery john july 2012 lt no air force magazine 95 7 the air force association archived from the original on september 16 2019 retrieved may 14 2013 america s 100 000 deal with a north korean defector politico magazine archived from the original on november 5 2018 retrieved november 4 2018 north korean defector no kum sok kenneth rowe author blaine harden march 31 2015 archived from the original on december 12 2021 via youtube richard conn july 27 2013 former mig pilot remembers flight to freedom the daytona beach news journal archived from the original on december 13 2017 retrieved december 13 2017 1 2 the story of the mig 15 on display factsheets national museum of the united states air force may 12 2015 archived from the original on august 7 2016 retrieved june 6 2016 1 2 the mig 15 s role during the korean war march 14 2015 archived 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2 2015 retrieved march 21 2015 no kum sok the man who defected to south korea in his mig 15 youtube august 31 2012 bibliography edit blaine harden 2015 the great leader and the fighter pilot the true story of the tyrant who created north korea and the young lieutenant who stole his way to freedom viking isbn 978 0670016570 external links edit media related to no kum sok at wikimedia commons v t e north korean defectors destinations south korea abai village china former soviet union united states philippines thailand united kingdom defectors former politicians chŏng sangjin hwang jang yop jang jin sung jo song gil kang chol hwan oh kil nam pak sung won ryu mi yong ryu hyun woo tae yong ho former spies or soldiers an myeong jin jang gil su jeong su il jin gyeong suk joo seong ha kim hyon hui kim shin jo lee sang jo lee so yeon no kum sok oh chong song son jong nam zhu xianjian activists cho myung chul jeong kwang il ji seong ho kim seong min lee ae ran lee hyeon seo park sang hak phillip 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