Pak Myong-sun () is a North Korean politician. She is the director of a
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 ...
(WPK) department (possibly the Light Industry Department) and a member of the
WPK Politburo. She is the only female head of a party department and one of only two female Politburo members.
Biography
She made her public appearance along with Kim Jong-un at the
September 2010 Party Representative Conference when she was elected to the First Deputy Chair of the
WPK Central Auditing Commission. In December 2011 she was a member of the commission which
organized the state funeral of Kim Jong-il. In October 2013 she was appointed to
WPK Central Committee vice director. On August 13, 2020, at the 16th Politburo meeting of the
7th Central Committee of the WPK she was appointed to an alternate (candidate) member of the
Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea
In North Korea, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), or simply the Politburo, formerly the Political Committee (1946–61), is the highest decision-making body in the ruling party between sessions ...
and a director of an unspecified WPK department (possibly the
Light Industry Department). Pak is one of only two women on the Politburo, the other being
Kim Yo-jong
Kim Yo-jong (; born 26 September 1987) is a North Korean politician and diplomat serving as the Deputy Department Director of the Publicity and Information Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, or WPK. She also served as an alternate membe ...
, and the only female head of a party department.
References
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Living people
21st-century North Korean women politicians
21st-century North Korean politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Alternate members of the 8th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea
Members of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea