Ri Chol () is a

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 ...

n politician. He is a member of the 14th Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly.

Biography

Born in 1940, he graduated from the College of International Studies and the French Department of International Relations . From 1973 to 1979, he served as Director of Foreign Affairs and Literature of the International Organization, and was appointed to the General Affairs of Geneva, Switzerland in June 1980 after passing through the secretary of the secretary's office of the Party's organizational leadership in 1980. In September 1987, after serving as ambassador of the Geneva delegation in Switzerland, he became the permanent representative of the UN secretariat of Geneva in 1991 and was appointed ambassador to Switzerland in January 1998. In July 2000, KOHAS, a joint venture company, served as ambassador to Liechtenstein in August 2001, and as ambassador to the Netherlands in December 2001. In March 2010 he resigned from the ambassadorship in Switzerland. In September 2010, he was elected as a candidate for the

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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 ...

. Since April 2010, he has been the Director of the Joint Investment Guidance Bureau and the Chairman of the Joint Investment Commission. He was removed from those positions In November 2011 .

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