North Korean Policy Elites - Defense Technical Information Center
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Table IV-8. Major National Public Organizations<br />
Name Organization Position<br />
Pak Sun Hui 52<br />
Ri Yong Hui<br />
<strong>Korean</strong> Democratic Women’s Union<br />
SPA Presidium<br />
Chairwoman of the Central Committee<br />
Member<br />
Vice-chairwoman of the Central<br />
Committee<br />
Kim Kyong Ho Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League<br />
SPA Presidium<br />
First Secretary of the Central<br />
Committee<br />
Member<br />
Kim Sung Chol Pyongyang City Committee of the Kim Il<br />
First Secretary<br />
Sung Socialist Youth League<br />
Ryom Sun Gil General Federation of Trade Unions of<br />
Korea<br />
Chairman of the Central Committee<br />
Member<br />
SPA Presidium<br />
Song Sok Hwan General Federation of the Unions of<br />
Literature and the Arts of Korea<br />
Vice-Chairman of the Central<br />
Committee<br />
Sung Sang Sop <strong>Korean</strong> Agricultural Workers’ Union Chairman of the Central Committee<br />
Member<br />
SPA Presidium<br />
Kim Yong Do <strong>Korean</strong> Educational and Cultural<br />
Workers' Union<br />
Vice-chairman of the Central<br />
Committee (ROK)<br />
Kim Song Guk <strong>Korean</strong> Journalists’ Union Chairman of the Central Committee<br />
<strong>Korean</strong> Lawyers Committee<br />
Cho Sang<br />
Han Oh-chul<br />
Pyon Yong Rip<br />
Thae Hyong Chol<br />
Kang Yong Sop<br />
Mun Chae Chol<br />
Jon Hyon Chan<br />
Jon Yong Jin 53<br />
DPRK Olympic Committee<br />
DPRK Olympic Committee<br />
<strong>Korean</strong> General Federation of Science<br />
and Technology<br />
<strong>Korean</strong> Children’s Union<br />
DPRK Academy of Sciences<br />
SPA Presidium<br />
DPRK Academy of Social Sciences<br />
SPA Presidium<br />
<strong>Korean</strong> Christian Federation<br />
SPA Presidium<br />
<strong>Korean</strong> Committee for Cultural Relations<br />
with Foreign Countries<br />
Vice-president<br />
Secretary<br />
President<br />
Member<br />
President<br />
Member<br />
Chairman<br />
Member<br />
Acting Chairman<br />
Vice-Chairman<br />
Vice-Chairman for S&T<br />
52 Pak Sun Hui is a daughter of Pak Chong-Ae (1907-1967), a member of the Soviet-<strong>Korean</strong> faction who was the<br />
first Chairwoman of the <strong>Korean</strong> Democratic Women’s League in the 1940s-early 1960s. Pak Chong-Ae was the<br />
common-law wife of Kim Yong Bum, Chairman of the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Korean</strong> Branch Bureau of the <strong>Korean</strong> Communist<br />
Party in the 1940s. From the early 1950s to 1963, she had accompanied Kim Il Sung at many official functions as<br />
the only representative of all <strong>Korean</strong> women and was one of the most powerful women in the DPRK. In 1965, Pak<br />
Chong-Ae was replaced by Mrs. Kim Ok-sun, a guerrilla wife of Ch’oe Gwan, a partisan general and Director of<br />
the Political Bureau of the KPA. Following Ch’oe Gwan’s purge in 1969, Mrs. Kim Ok-sun was replaced by Kim<br />
Il Sung’s second wife, Kim Song-Ae, as the Chairwoman of the KDWU. In other words, the top position in the<br />
<strong>Korean</strong> Democratic Women’s Union customarily used to go to one of the most powerful women in the country.<br />
Now, despite earlier speculations that Kim Jong Il may give this job to his common-law wife, Ko Young Hui, he<br />
chose to hand this highly prestigious and coveted post over to the daughter of the founder of the women<br />
movement in Korea.<br />
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