Kim Hyong-ryong ( ko, 김형룡) is a military officer and politician of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

). He is a member of the

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of the Workers' Party of Korea and is a public diplomat of the Korean People's Army. He also served as member of parliament in 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 ...

, North Korea's

unicameral Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one. Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...

parliament.

Biography

He Graduated from Telecommunications Military School and Kim Il-sung Military University. In April 1992, he was appointed Director of the Ministry of People's Armed Forces, and was appointed to the Chief of Communications of the Ministry of People's Armed Forces. He was promoted to Lieutenant General of the Korean People's Army in October 1995 and to

Colonel general Colonel general is a three- or four-star military rank used in some armies. It is particularly associated with Germany, where historically general officer ranks were one grade lower than in the Commonwealth and the United States, and was a ra ...

July 2003. In September 2010, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. In 1998, he was elected a deputy to the 10th convocation of the

and to the 11th convocation in 2003. He was a member of the funeral committees at the time of the death of O Jin-u in 1995, Jo Myong-rok in 2010, and following 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.

Awards and honors

Kim could be seen wearing multiple decorations during a visit to Beijing. PRK Order of Kim Il Sung BAR

Order of Kim Il-sung PRK Order of the National Flag - 1st Class BAR

Order of the National Flag First Class, four times FreedomAndIndependence1Ribbon

Order of Freedom and Independence First Class DPRK Order of Labor

Order of Korean Labour, twice DPRK 20th Anniversary Order

Commemorative Order "Foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" KPA Foundation Commemorative Order

Commemorative Order "Anniversary of the Foundation of the People's Army" DPRK Order of Military Service Honor 1st Class

Order of Military Service Honour First Class 30th Anniversary of the Publication of the Rural Theses Order ribbon

Commemorative Order "30th Anniversary of the Agricultural Presentation" PRK Order of the National Flag - 2nd Class BAR

Order of the National Flag Second Class, three times DPRK Order of Three Great Revolutions

Order of the Red Banner of Three Great Revolutions DPRK ribbon bar - Order of National Flag 3rd Class

Order of the National Flag Third Class, twice DPRK Order of Military Service Honor 3rd Class

Order of Military Service Honour Third Class Soldier's Medal of Honour Second Class DPRK 20th Anniversary Order

Commemorative Order "50th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" DPRK Military Merit Medal

Medal For Military Merit, three times

References

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