Park Sung-won ( ko, 박승원; born November 1946) is a former 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 ...

) who was a member 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 ...

. He served as delegate to the 12th convocation 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 ...

. In 2015, he defected.

Biography

Born in November 1946. He graduated from Kim Il-Sung Military University, and in April 1992, became the rank of general of the Korean People's Army. He served as Deputy Chief of Staff for the People's Army General Staff. In 1998, he served as the 10th delegate to the Supreme People's Assembly. It is the 12th delegate since April 2009. During the first inter-Korean defense ministers' meeting in September 2000, he served as Deputy Chairman of the North Korean delegation, and in April 2002, the rank of the People's Army was granted. In September 2010, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. He participated in the funeral committees which organized the funerals of Choi Kwang in 1997,

Yon Hyong-muk Yon Hyong-muk, also spelt Yong Hyong-muk (November 3, 1931 – October 22, 2005), was a long-serving politician in North Korea and at the height of his career the most powerful person in that country outside the Kim family. He was Prime Minister ...

in 2005,

Jo Myong-rok Jo Myong-lok (12 July 1928 – 6 November 2010) was a North Korean military officer who held the military rank Chasu (Vice Marshal). In 1998, he was appointed First Vice-Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, Director ...

in 2010, and Kim Jong-il following his death in 2011. After leaving North Korea in April 2015, they filed for asylum with the South Korean Embassy in Moscow.

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