Jang Chol ( ko, 장철, context=north, born 1955) is a
North Korea
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n politician and scientist. He served as President of the
State Academy of Sciences under the
Cabinet of North Korea
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and a member of the
Central Committee
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of the
Workers' Party of Korea
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. He was elected a deputy to the
11th and
12th
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convocations of the
Supreme People's Assembly
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, North Korea's
unicameral parliament
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.
Biography
Jang was born in 1955 in
Pyongyang
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. In February 1999, he was appointed the manager of the state-of-the-art electronic engineering base at the National Academy of Sciences, and was appointed the manager of the enterprise where Jeon Hee-seok works. Since serving as Director of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005, he has been the Director of the
since September 2009.
“통일부 북한자료센터 주요 인물 정보”. 통일부 북한자료센터. 2012년 1월 9일에 확인함.
/ref> In September 2010, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. In 2003, he served as a member of the 11th convocation to the Supreme People's Assembly and following the April 2009, he has been member of the 12th convocation. At the time of the death of Jo Myong-rok
Jo Myong-lok (12 July 1928 – 6 November 2010) was a North Korean military officer who held the military rank Chasu (Vice Marshal). In 1998, he was appointed First Vice-Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, Director ...
in 2010 and death of Kim Jong-il
Kim Jong-il (; ; ; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim ...
in 2011, he was a member of the funeral committee.
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Living people
1955 births
People from Pyongyang
Workers' Party of Korea politicians
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North Korean scientists
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