Ri Jae-il (, 1935 – 4 February 2021) was a North Korean politician and a member of the

Propaganda and Agitation Department The Propaganda and Agitation Department (PAD, ), officially translated as the Publicity and Information Department, is a department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) tasked with coordinating the creation and dissemina ...

of the

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as well as member of the

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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 of the

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

, the

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parliament of North Korea. Pursuant to the provisions of the

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

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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

References

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