Kim Jong-suk (politician)

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Kim Jong-suk
Born1930 (age 93–94)
Pyongyang, North Korea
Political party Workers' Party of Korea [1]
Spouse Ho Dam (died 1991) [2]
Relatives Kim Il Sung (cousin)
Awards Order of Kim Il Sung (1992), Order of Kim Jong Il (2012)
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl
김정숙
Hancha
金貞淑
Revised Romanization Gim Jeong-suk
McCune–Reischauer Kim Chŏng-suk

Kim Jong-suk (born 1930) [1] is a North Korean government official. She is the chairwoman of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. [3] [4] [5] In 2017, she was appointed to the Diplomatic Commission of the Supreme People's Assembly. [4] She is a former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Minju Choson . [1] [6]

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Life

Kim Jong-suk was born in 1930 in Pyongyang, Imperial Korea. In May 1954, she was appointed Deputy Director of the Central Committee of the North Korean Democratic Youth Alliance, later becoming vice chairman in October 1959. In May 1964, she became vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers' Youth Alliance, and in February 1965, of the Joseon Student Committee. In December of the following year, she was appointed vice chairman of the North-Latin American Friendship Association. [1] In February 1969, Jong-suk started serving as vice chairman of the North-Cuba Solidarity Committee [1] before serving as vice chairman of the Central Inspection Committee of the Korean Trade Union in December 1971. [1] She was elected to the 7th Supreme People's Assembly in 1982, [1] later becoming the editor-in-chief of Minju Choson in March 1986. [1] During November of the same year, she was elected to the 8th Supreme People's Assembly. [1]

At an unknown year, Jong-suk was appointed Chairman of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with Peoples of the World. [1] In March 1988, Jong-suk was by-elected as a candidate for the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and served as Chairman of the North-Finland Friendship Association nine months later. [1] In December 1993, she was elected to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly. [1] In September 2010, she was elected to the Party Central Committee. [1] Jong-suk was one of the delegates to the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Supreme People's Assemblies, as well as the chairman of the Joseon Foreign Cultural Liaison Committee in December 2009. [1] [7]

In April 2011, she became vice chairman of the North Korea Preparatory Committee commemorating the 100th birthday of Kim Il-sung. [1] Jong-suk was also part of Jo Myong-rok's National Funeral Committee on November 11, 2010, [8] as well as the Kim Jong-il State Funeral Committee on December 19, 2011. [9]

At the 5th session of the 13th Supreme People's Assembly held on April 11, 2017, she was elected as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, which was revived after 19 years. [10] She was later appointed chairman of the North Korean side's preparatory committee for the Paektu Mountain Great Figures Celebration in honor of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, which was held on August 15 of the same year. [11] She was re-elected as a delegate in the 14th Supreme People's Assembly delegate election, which was held on March 10, 2019, [12] and was later elected as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly at the first session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly held on April 11. [13]

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  6. ↑ "Kim Jong Suk, chairperson of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries..." Getty Images.
  7. ↑ "北朝鮮、対外文化連絡委員長に金貞淑氏を任命" [North Korea appoints Kim Jong-suk as head of international cultural liaison committee] (in Japanese). 2010-02-19.
  8. ↑ 고 조명록의 국가장의위원회 구성 (in Korean). KCNA. 6 November 2010. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014.
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