Kim Phyong-hae (, born 8 October 1941) is a North Korean politician. He was a

Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant or perverted in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character trai ...

(WPK) and the director of the Cadres' Affairs Department of the WPK. He is a full member of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK and a full member of the Politburo of the WPK. Kim is also a deputy to the

13th Supreme People's Assembly Parliamentary elections were held in North Korea on 9 March 2014 to elect the members of the 13th Supreme People's Assembly. Background This was the first election since the assumption of Kim Jong-un as leader of the country as the leader of th ...

Career

Kim was born on 8 October 1941. In 1989, he was appointed Secretary of Organization of the WPK Pyongyang City Committee. In 1994 he was awarded the Order of Kim Il-sung. In 1997 he was appointed Chief Secretary of the

North Pyongan North Pyongan Province (Phyŏnganbukto; , also spelled North P'yŏngan), is a western province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former P'yŏng'an Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, th ...

provincial committee and chair of the provincial people's committee, serving until 2003. In 1998 he was elected a deputy to the 10th

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 ...

. He was re-elected in 2003 and 2009. He entered the Politburo as an alternate member in September 2010, following the 3rd Party Conference, and was promoted to full member at the 7th Congress in May 2016. He led the Cadre Department of the party, serving simultaneously as vice-chairman of the Central Committee (the position was called "secretary of the Central Committee" until 2016). He was replaced in December 2019 at a Central Committee plenum.

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Living people Members of the Supreme People's Assembly Place of birth missing (living people) 1941 births Alternate members of the 6th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea Members of the 7th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Members of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Vice Chairmen of the Workers' Party of Korea and its predecessors {{NorthKorea-politician-stub