Ri Jae-il ( ko, 리재일, 1935 – 4 February 2021) was a North Korean politician and a member of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party of Korea as well as 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

Ri Jae il was born in 1935. He started his professional career as a journalist, he was the editor of the capital's daily

Pyongyang Sinmun ''Pyongyang Sinmun'' (, ''Pyongyang News'') is a North Korean newspaper founded on 1 June 1957 by Kim Il Sung. It launched an online version on 1 January 2005. It is published by the Workers' Party of Korea Pyongyang Municipal Committee six times ...

. Little is known about his civil and political career before 1992, when he became deputy director of one of the departments 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. In February 2001, he became chairman of the State Publishing Control Committee, the main office dealing with political censorship in North Korea's mass media. From May 2004 to 2014, Ri Jae-il was the first deputy director in the Propaganda and Agitation Department in the Central Committee, which was managed by

Ri Il-hwan Ri Il-hwan (, born 1960) is a North Korean politician, a member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea, Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). He ...

. He was a member of the 12th convocation of the

, the

unicameral Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one. Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...

parliament of North Korea. Pursuant to the provisions of the

3rd Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea The 3rd Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea was held in Pyongyang on September 28, 2010. The meeting elected the highest authority of the Workers' Party of Korea, and revised the party charter. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il also attended the ...

, on 28 September 2010, Ri Jae-il became a deputy member of the Central Committee. After the

death Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...

Kim Jong-il Kim Jong-il (; ; ; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim ...

in December 2011, Ri Jae-il was 120th in the 232-person funeral committee. This testified to the formal and actual belonging of Ri Jae il to the political leadership of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. According to specialists, places on such lists defined the rank of a politician in the hierarchy of the power apparatus.Tetsuya Hakoda
''All eyes set on Kim Jong Il's funeral committee list''
The Asahi Shimbun, 27 grudnia 2011, ostęp: 10 października 2012

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Members of the Supreme People's Assembly Workers' Party of Korea politicians 1935 births 2021 deaths {{NorthKorea-politician-stub