Kim Tu-bong
In 1947 the Soviets communicated via Major General to discuss whether the "Taegukgi" flag should be kept for newly founded North Korea. Vice Chairman of the Provisional People's Committee for North Korea Kim Tu-bong was in favor of keeping the "Taegukgi". However, for Lebedev, the concept of Chinese philosophy, which the design of the "Taegukgi" is based on, appear to him as medieval superstition, so he wanted to change to a new flag. Kim yielded and a few months later the design for the new flag was dictated from Moscow, although it is not known who the Soviet official was that designed the flag. Before its formal adoption, the flag remained in official use.