North Korean Policy Elites - Defense Technical Information Center
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Cabinet Posts 10 th SPA 11 th SPA<br />
Railway Kim Yong-sam Kim Yong-sam<br />
Land-Sea Transportation Kim Yong-il Kim Yong-il<br />
Agriculture Yi Ha-sop Yi Kyong-sik<br />
Chemical Industries Pak Pong-ju Yi Mu-yong<br />
Light Industries Yi Yon-su Yi Chu-o<br />
Foreign Affairs Paek Nam-sun 45<br />
Kang Seok-Ju, 1VM<br />
Paek Nam-sun<br />
Kang Seok-Ju, 46 1VM<br />
Trade 47 Yi Kwang-gun Yi Kwang-gun<br />
Forestry Yi Sang-mu Yi Sang-mu<br />
Fisheries Yi Song-ung Yi Song-ung<br />
City Management Chang Il-son Ch’oe Chong-gon<br />
Environmental Protection Ch’oe Chong-gon Chang Il-son<br />
State Construction<br />
Pae Tal-chun<br />
Pae Tal-chun<br />
Supervision<br />
Commerce 48 Yi Yong-son Yi Yong-son 49<br />
Grain Purchasing Paek Ch’ang-yong Ch’oe Nam-gyun<br />
Posts and Telecom Yi Kum-bom Yi Kum-bom<br />
Finance Mun Il-bong Mun Il-bong<br />
State Accounting Kim Ui-sun Kim Ui-sun<br />
Central Bank Kim Wan-su Kim Wan-su<br />
Central Statistics Bureau Kim Ch’ang-su Kim Ch’ang-su<br />
Labour Ri Won Il Ri Won Il 50<br />
Committee for the Promotion Kim Jong-U<br />
Kim Jong Gi (Chairman)<br />
of International Trade under<br />
the Cabinet of Ministers<br />
Flood Damage Rehabilitation<br />
Committee<br />
Ri Yong Sok (Vice-Chairman)<br />
45 Prior to that appointment, Paek Nam-sun had served as one of the Vice Foreign Ministers in charge of inter-<br />
<strong>Korean</strong> exchanges. He used the alias of Paek Nam-Joon when he served as the DPRK representative at the <strong>North</strong>-<br />
South high-level talks in 1991-1992 and acted as the Chief of the Secretariat at the Committee for Peaceful<br />
Reunification of the Fatherland. He has also served as the Chairman of the SPA Unification Committee since<br />
1992. In the past couple of years Paek Nam-sun has been seriously ill, and rarely attended to his ministerial duties.<br />
46 First Vice-Foreign Minister Kang Seok-ju, who is one of Kim Jong Il’s close confidants on foreign affairs, is said<br />
to run the daily operations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs these days. He is in line to be appointed the next<br />
Foreign Minister of the DPRK, probably as early as by the end of 2004.<br />
47 Ku Bon-tae, a vice minister of trade, led an economic delegation to Vietnam on November 15, 2003, to study the<br />
experience of Vietnam in market reforms and to promote bilateral trade, investment, and mutual learning.<br />
48 On August 16, 2003, the Institute of Commerce under the Ministry of Commerce published a new “Business<br />
Dictionary,” a product of one year’s work, which introduced hundreds of new macro-economic and microeconomic<br />
terms widely used in market economies around the world.<br />
49 As part of the July 1, 2002, Measures for Economic Management and Improvement, the Ministry of Commerce<br />
began to develop a “market-based pricing system” for rewarding “individual scientific and technological<br />
achievements in an attempt to better motivate scientists and technicians.” Subsequently, the Cabinet of Ministers<br />
adopted a new system under which new scientific and technological achievements, such as intangible intellectual<br />
properties like inventions and computer software, can be distributed on market-based principles and be<br />
compensated for as “intellectual goods.” See Chosun Sinbo, Pyongyang, January 21, 2004.<br />
50 Ri Won Il serves concurrently as Chairman of the DPRK-Iran Friendship Association.<br />
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