Kim Chang-sop ( ko, 김창섭; January 2, 1946 – June 9, 2020) was a North Korean politician who served as the Vice minister of the
Ministry of State Security.
Early life and education
Kim Chang-sop was born on January 2, 1946, in the
Unsan County
Unsan County is a ''kun'', or county, in eastern North P'yŏngan province, North Korea. Within the province, it borders Hyangsan in the east, Kujang and Nyŏngbyŏn in the south, and Tongch'ang and T'aech'ŏn in the west. In addition, it is ...
in
South Pyongan Province
South Pyongan Province (Phyŏngannamdo; ) is a province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the southern half of the former Pyongan Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea. Its ca ...
. He joined the
Korean People's Army
The Korean People's Army (KPA; ) is the military force of North Korea and the armed wing of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). Under the ''Songun'' policy, it is the central institution of North Korean society. Currently, WPK General Sec ...
in July 1963. He was a graduate of the
Kim Il-sung Higher Party School
Kim Il Sung Higher Party School (김일성고급당학교) – a key party-political educational institution in the DPRK responsible for training and preparing the managerial staff of the Workers' Party of Korea and the state apparatus that is par ...
.
Career
He was the vice minister of the
State Security Department
The Ministry of State Security of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Korean: 조선민주주의인민공화국 국가보위성) is the secret police agency of North Korea. It is an autonomous agency of the North Korean government repo ...
and was the head of the Political Department of that agency. He has also been the deputy of the
Supreme People's Assembly
The Supreme People's Assembly (SPA; ) is the unicameral legislature of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea. It consists of one deputy from each of the DPRK's 687 constituencies, elected to five-year ...
since the
11th convocation in September 2003.
During the
3rd Conference of the
Workers' Party of Korea
The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is the founding and sole ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea. Founded in 1949 from the merger of the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party of ...
on September 28, 2010, he was elected as an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and also for the first time sat in the
Central Committee
Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...
itself.
Following the
death
Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...
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 December 2011, Kim Chang-sop was ranked 26th in the
232-member Mourning Committee.
Death
Kim Chang Sop died in June 2020. His death was announced by the
Korean Central News Agency
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) is the state news agency of North Korea. The agency portrays the views of the North Korean government for both domestic and foreign consumption. It was established on December 5, 1946 and now features onlin ...
.
References
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Members of the Supreme People's Assembly
1946 births
2020 deaths
Alternate members of the 6th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea