Ri Song-hak () is a politician of the

Democratic People's Republic of 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 Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and ...

(North Korea). He serves as the Vice Premier of North Korea and a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Career

In April 2020, he was elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea at the Political Bureau meeting of the Central Committee. Two days later, at the Third Plenary Meeting of the

14th Supreme People's Assembly Parliamentary elections were held in North Korea on 10 March 2019 to elect the members of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly. The elections were announced on 6 January 2019. With only one candidate on the ballot in each constituency, outside obs ...

, he was appointed the Minister of Machine Building Industry, succeeding Choe Il-ryong. In January 2021, he participated as a speaker in the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea's Business Conference at the 8th Party Congress and was elected as a member of the Central Committee. One week later, at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the

, he stepped down from the Ministry of Machine Building Industry and was appointed the Vice Premier.

Other notes

In July 2014, he served as a member of the State Funeral Committee upon the death of Jeon Byeong-ho.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Political office-holders in North Korea Workers' Party of Korea politicians Vice premiers of North Korea {{Improve categories, date=November 2023