Pak Jong-gun
Pak Jong-gun | |
|---|---|
| Vice Premier of North Korea | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
| Supreme Leader | Kim Jong Un |
| Personal details | |
| Citizenship | North Korean |
| Nationality | Korean |
| Political party | Workers' Party of Korea |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 박정근 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Jeonggeun |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Chŏngkŭn |
Pak Jong-gun (Korean: 박정근) is a North Korean politician who is serving as a member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea and Vice Premier of North Korea as well as chairman of the National Planning Commission.[1]
Biography
[edit]In January 2021 he was promoted to a member of the 8th Central Committee at the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, and was elected as a candidate member of the Politburo as a vice-chairman of the National Planning Commission at the 1st Central Committee of the 8th Congress on January 10. On December 31, 2021, he was promoted to a member of the Politburo at the 4th Plenary Session of the 8th Workers' Party of Korea and head of the National Planning Commission under the Cabinet of North Korea.[2] On April 10, he was included in the group of leaders at the Central Reporting Conference on the 10th anniversary of the appointment of Kim Jong Un.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Members of DPRK Cabinet Appointed". KCNA Watch. 18 January 2011. Archived from the original on 2021-02-10. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
- ^ "DPRK Cabinet Zooms Plenary Meeting". NK Leadership Watch. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
- ^ "Analysis on North Korea's 4 th Plenary Meeting of the 8 th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea" (PDF). Korea Institute for National Unification. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
