North Korean Policy Elites - Defense Technical Information Center
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Table II-1. Key Family Members in the Kim Il-sung Regime (continued)<br />
Name Relation Position Ranking<br />
Kim Bong-ju<br />
Kang Hyon-su<br />
Chang Song-u<br />
Son of Kim Hyong-nok,<br />
uncle of Kim Il-sung,<br />
younger brother of Kim<br />
Chang-ju<br />
Son of Kang Yong-sok, Kim<br />
Il-sung’s mother’s brother<br />
Elder brother of Chang<br />
Song-taek<br />
Chairman, Democratic<br />
Front for the Unification of the<br />
Fatherland<br />
51<br />
Member CPC 101<br />
Director Political Bureau, Public<br />
Security Ministry<br />
Kim Song-ae Wife of Kim Il-sung Chairman, Democratic<br />
Women’s<br />
League<br />
Kim Kyong-hi<br />
Yi Yong-mu<br />
Kim Chong-suk<br />
Chang Songtaek<br />
Kim Pyong-il<br />
Eldest daughter of Kim Ilsung,<br />
wife of Chang<br />
Song-taek<br />
Nephew of Yi Bo-ik, Kim Ilsung’s<br />
grandmother<br />
Second daughter of Kim<br />
Hyong-won, Kim Il-sung’s<br />
uncle<br />
Son-in-law of Kim Il-sung,<br />
husband of Kim<br />
Kyong-hui<br />
Second son of Kim Il-sung<br />
and Kim Song-ae, half<br />
brother of<br />
Kim Chong-il<br />
Director, KWP Light Industry<br />
Dept.<br />
Chairman, Transportation<br />
Commission<br />
104<br />
116<br />
173<br />
174<br />
Editor-in-Chief, Minju Choson 291<br />
1st Vice Director, OGD 302<br />
Ambassador to Bulgaria<br />
Kim Chong-u Kim Il-sung’s cousin Chairman, External Economics<br />
Committee<br />
Kang Dok-su<br />
Vice<br />
Kang In-su<br />
Kang Yong-sop<br />
Kim Chon-gu<br />
Son of Kang Bo-sok, Kim Ilsung’s<br />
uncle on his<br />
mother’s side<br />
Son of Kang Bo-sok, Kim Ilsung’s<br />
uncle on his<br />
mother’s side<br />
Cousin of Kim Il-sung’s<br />
mother (son of Kang<br />
Yang-uk)<br />
Son of Kim Il-sung’s<br />
father’s sister<br />
Chairman, Choson<br />
Broadcasting Corp.<br />
Vice Minister, Chemical<br />
Industry<br />
Chairman, Choson Christian<br />
League<br />
Vice Minister, External<br />
Economic Ministry<br />
Under Kim Chong-il, the family-based patronage system has declined, with fewer direct<br />
family members occupying senior leadership portfolios. By 1996, close relatives of the Kim<br />
family within the leadership numbered six. Besides Kim Chong-il, they included Kim Kyong-hui,<br />
Chang Song-taek, Kim Yong-chu (Kim Il-sung’s brother, who returned to the leadership in 1992,<br />
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