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Kim Jong-suk (born 1930) is a North Korean government official. She is the chairwoman of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, as well as a former editor-in-chief for the newspaper Minju Choson. She has also been elected as a delegate for every Supreme People's Assembly since 1986.

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. In February 1969, Jong-suk started serving as vice chairman of the North-Cuba Solidarity Committee before serving as vice chairman of the Central Inspection Committee of the Korean Trade Union in December 1971. She was elected to the 7th Supreme People's Assembly in 1982, later becoming the editor-in-chief of Minju Choson in March 1986. During November of the same year, she was elected to the 8th Supreme People's Assembly.

In an unknown year, Jong-suk was appointed Chairman of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with Peoples of the World. 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. In December 1993, she was elected to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly. In September 2010, she was elected to the Party Central Committee. 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.

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

In 2017, Jong-suk was appointed to the Diplomatic Commission of the Supreme People's Assembly, and during 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 had been revived after 19 years. 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. She was re-elected as a delegate in the 14th Supreme People's Assembly delegate election, which was held on March 10, 2019, 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.

Awards and honors

• April 1992: Awarded the Kim Il Sung Medal
• February 2012: Awarded the Kim Jong Il Medal

References

1. ^ "김정숙" [Kim Jong-suk] (in Korean). Ministry of Unification. Archived from the original on September 10, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
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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.
9. "National Funeral Committee Formed". Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
10. "北朝鮮で最高人民会議開催…19年ぶりに外交委員会が復活". Daily NK (in Japanese). 2017-04-12.
11. "北朝鮮「2017白頭山偉人称賛大会」開催]". Daily NK (in Japanese). 2017-08-16.
12. 북 김정은, 최고인민회의 대의원 처음 빠져. Tong Il News (in Korean). 2019-03-12.
13. "常任委員長に崔龍海、首相に金才龍氏…北朝鮮で最高人民会議". Daily NK (in Japanese). 2019-04-12.

• People from Pyongyang
• 1930 births
• Living people
• 21st-century North Korean women politicians
• 21st-century North Korean politicians
• Women government ministers of North Korea