Ri Mu-yong ( ko, 리무영) is a North Korean politician and administrator. He served as Vice Premier and Minister of Chemical Industry in the
Cabinet of North Korea
The Cabinet of North Korea (''Naegak'') is, according to the Constitution of North Korea, the administrative and executive body and a general state-management organ in the Government of North Korea. The Cabinet's principal newspaper is ''Minju C ...
.
Biography
He was born on April 8, 1948. During the 1990s to 2003 he served as director of the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex in
Anju,
South Pyongan Province
South Pyongan Province (Phyŏngannamdo; ) is a province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the southern half of the former Pyongan Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea. Its ca ...
. In 1998 he was elected to the
10th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), representing the 119th electoral district. In 2003 he was elected to the
11th convocation of the SPA, and appointed to Minister of Chemical Industry, replacing
Pak Pong-ju
Pak Pong-ju (; born 10 April 1939) is a North Korean politician who served as the Premier of North Korea from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2013 to 2019. He was elected a member of the Presidium of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 2016.
Earl ...
who became
Premier of North Korea
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. He served in that position until April 2017, when he was replaced by
Jang Kil-ryong. During the
3rd Party Conference he was elected a full member of the
Central Committee of the WPK
The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea ( ko, 조선로동당 중앙위원회) is the highest party body between national meetings of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea. According to WPK rules, the ...
. He was again elected also a full member of the
7th Central Committee following the
7th WPK Congress held in 2016.
He was member of the funeral committee of
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,
Ri Ul-sol
Ri Ul-sol (리을설; 14 September 19217 November 2015) was a North Korean politician and military official. He played an important role in the administrations of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, achieving the rank of Marshal of the Korean People's ...
in 2015
and of
Kim Yang-gon
Kim Yang-gon (, 24 April 1942 – 29 December 2015) was a North Korean politician and a senior official of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.
Early career
Kim Yang-gon started his political career as a vice-director of the party's Internation ...
in 2015.
References
Members of the Supreme People's Assembly
Workers' Party of Korea politicians
Government ministers of North Korea
1948 births
Living people
People from South Pyongan
People from Nampo
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