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The Great Superior and interpretation Fighter Pilot: Escaping Absolutism in Northern Korea

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Minutes Seeking Freedom Led to a Lifetime in Aviation

A harrowing 17-minute detour changed the life of an Embry-Riddle professor who made headlines around the world as a Cold War defector.

In September 1953, less than two months after the Korean War ended with an armistice, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to a South Korean airfield in a state-of-the-art Russian fighter plane.

Flight Lt. No Kum-sok reinvented himself as Kenneth Rowe: American citizen, engineering student at the University of Delaware, aerospace engineer, author and professor at Embry-Riddle.

At 17, he attended the North Korean Naval Academy, and soloed in a Yak-18, a light basic trainer. He trained in Manchuria under Soviet advisors in the fighter jet with swept wings, the MiG-15bis. By 1950, the focus of his training shifted to aerial combat as North Korean forces invaded South Korea.

As the youngest fighter pilot in North Korea, he flew nearly 100 combat missions over the next year, knowing he would be forced to fly for the duration of the war or until his own death, barely into his 20s.

Eight weeks after the armistice was signed in 1953, he devised his escape. He was assigned to fly from Sunan, an air base in North Korea to the outskirts of the capital, Pyongy

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Kenneth Rowe, North Korean pilot who defected in Soviet plane, dies at 90

Rowe fooled the DPRK air force into thinking he was loyal to Kim Il Sung, all while he was planning his great escape

Oliver JiaJanuary 9, 2023

No Kum Sok meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon at the U.S. Capitol, May 1954 | Image: Creative Commons

Kenneth Hill Rowe, a North Korean pilot who defected in his Soviet MiG-15 aircraft across the Demilitarized Zone shortly after the Korean War, passed away last month at his home in Daytona, Florida.

Born No Kum Sok to a relatively affluent businessman in Sinhung County, South Hamgyong Province, in what was then known as Japanese-occupied Korea, Rowe’s life would prove to be one of contradiction.