Kim Jong-im ( ko, 김정임) is a North Korean politician. She is one of the few women (among others, Kim Kyong-hui,

Kim Rak-hui Kim Rak-hui (, 11 November 1933 – February 2013) was a North Korean politician. Kim worked in the agricultural and cooperatives section for most of her working life. During the Korean War, her efforts in rationing caught the attention of Kim I ...

and

Han Kwang-bok Han Kwang-bok (Korean language, Korean: 한광복) is a North Korean politician who served as Vice Premier. She was born in the 1940s in the North Hamgyong Province, North Korea. She also served as the Minister for the Electronics Industry until ...

) who perform the highest functions in the North Korean government apparatus. She is a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and was a member 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 ...

Biography

In 1985 she became the deputy director of the Party History Institute, formally an organizational unit of 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 ...

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 ...

. From December 2009 she is the head of the Institute, replacing Kim Ki-nam. Pursuant to the decision of the 3rd Conference of the Korean Workers' Party, on September 28, 2010, Kim was elected for the first time to the Central Committee. In 2009 she was elected to the 12th convocation of the

, representing the 157th electoral district. In 2016 she was elected full member of the

7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea The 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was elected by the 7th Congress on 9 May 2016, and remained in session until the election of the 8th Central Committee on 10 January 2021. In between party congresses and specially conven ...

. After the death of Kim Jong Il in December 2011, Kim Jong-im was ranked in 41st place in the 232-person Funeral Committee.

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