Ri Chol-bong (, died December 25, 2009) was a North Korean politician who served in various party and state posts, among them as Minister of Social Security.

Biography

He entered the

Mangyongdae Revolutionary School Red Flag Mangyongdae Revolutionary School is an elite public secondary school in the Mangyongdae district of Pyongyang city, North Korea. Established in 1947, it is a special education school with access only to the Workers' Party of Korea, Korea ...

after

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. In 1950, when the

Korean War The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was s ...

broke out, he enlisted in the military and remained in the military afterwards, reaching the rank of major general in 1970. In November 1970, he was elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee at the 5th Party Congress. Since the 80s, he served as vice department director of the

WPK Central Committee The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea is the highest organ between national meetings of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea. According to WPK rules, the Central Committee is elected by the party co ...

, minister of City Administration and director of the Political Bureau of the Ministry of Railways. In 1984-1985 he served as Minister of Social Security. In the

1998 North Korean parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in North Korea on 26 July 1998.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II'', p403 687 deputies were elected to the tenth Supreme People's Assembly. T ...

, he won a seat in the

Supreme People's Assembly The Supreme People's Assembly (SPA; ) is the legislature of North Korea. It is ostensibly the highest organ of state power and the only branch of government in North Korea, with all state organs subservient to it under the principle of unified ...

serving as a member the presidium of the

10th Supreme People's Assembly The 10th Supreme People's Assembly ( Chosongul: 최고인민회의 제10기) of North Korea was in session from 1998 until 2003. It consisted of 687 deputies, and held six sessions. The Supreme People's Assembly is the unicameral legislature of ...

. In October 2006 he was appointed as secretary of the Kangwon Province WPK committee. According to

KCNA The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) () is the state news agency of North Korea. The agency portrays the views of the North Korean government for both domestic and foreign consumption. It was established on December 5, 1946, and now features o ...

he died in a car accident.

References

{{reflist Workers' Party of Korea politicians Korean communists Government ministers of North Korea 2009 deaths Year of birth missing Place of birth missing Place of death missing