Kang Min-chol (born 1948) is a

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n politician. He is Minister of Mining Industries in the

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, and an alternate member of the politburo of the

Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea ( ko, 조선로동당 중앙위원회) is the highest party body between national meetings of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea. According to WPK rules, the ...

(WPK). He was a delegate to the 12th session of the

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Career

Kang was born in 1948, and attended the

Kim Chaek University of Technology Kim Chaek University of Technology is a university in North Korea, on the banks of the Taedong River in Pyongyang. It is named after General Kim Chaek. The university's programs in nuclear reactors, nuclear electronics, nuclear fuel and nuclear ...

. In October 1988, he became deputy-chair of the WPK organizational committee of the Musan Mining Complex in

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province, and in January 2001, he was appointed chief secretary of the Musan County WPK. He served as Chief Secretary of the WPK for Musan Mining Complex starting in October 2003, and since November 2005, he has been the Minister of Mining Industry in the

. In September 2010, he was appointed an alternate member of the

Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea ( ko, 조선로동당 중앙위원회) is the highest party body between national meetings of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea. According to WPK rules, the ...

. Kang served as a member of the national mourning committee upon the 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.

Delegate to Supreme People’s Assembly

Kang was elected to the 12th session of the

in April 2009, from the 410th Constituency. He was re-confirmed as Minister of Mining in the same session.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kang, Min-chol 1948 births Living people North Korean politicians Kim Chaek University of Technology alumni