Jon Pyong-ho

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	전병호
Revised Romanization	Jeon Byeong-ho
McCune- Reischauer	Chŏn Pyŏngho
See also : Korean name

Jon Pyong-ho (born March 20, 1926 in Chagang-do ; † July 7, 2014 ) was a North Korean politician of the Labor Party of Korea (PdAK), who served as a member of the National Defense Commission from 1990 to 2011 and as secretary of the Central Committee ( ZK) of the PdAK for the military and ammunition industry between 1986 and 2010 was a key figure in the development of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons in North Korea for decades .

Life

Jon, who came from a family of poor farmers, studied mechanical engineering in North Korea and the Soviet Union, and after graduating in 1951, he worked for the tractor factory in Kanggye . From 1956 to 1970 he was an instructor in the organization department of the Central Committee of the PdAK. There he helped the head of the department, Kim Yŏng-ju , in the 1960s to establish the undisputed supremacy of his older brother Kim Il-sung , during which time the party was purged of "military adventurers" and the so-called " Kapsan “- faction came.

In recognition of this, he was elected candidate for the Central Committee of the PdAK at the Fifth Party Congress in 1970 and was appointed Vice-Director of the party offices for the mechanical engineering industry. In 1971 this office was merged with other military-economic production units of the party, government and military to form the Second Economic Commission, which was subordinate to the PdAK. In 1972, Jon Pyong-ho became director of the general office of this Second Economic Commission and also chief secretary of the local party committee. He later became vice-chairman and finally first vice-chairman of the Second Economic Commission.

On the VI. At the PdAK party congress in 1980 Jon was elected a member of the Central Committee and in 1982 in the seventh legislative period as a member of the Supreme People's Assembly. At the same time he became a candidate for the Politburo . In the 1980s he was several times temporarily chairman of the Second Economic Commission and was finally at the 12th plenum of the VI. PdAK Central Committee elected Secretary for the Military and Munitions Industry on December 27, 1986. Almost two years later he was at the 14th plenum of the VI. Central Committee elected as a member of the Politburo. In May 1990 he was finally elected a member of the National Defense Commission. In these roles, he had a significant influence on the development of ballistic missiles and North Korea's nuclear weapons and is considered the chief planner of the country's first two nuclear weapons tests in 2006 and 2009.

In 2010, Jon Pyong-ho was appointed Director of the Political Bureau of the Government of North Korea and, at the same time, Chief Secretary of the Government's Party Committee. At the 3rd party conference of the PdAK he was re-elected as a member of the Politburo on September 28, 2010. Jon's government activity ended in March 2012; he remained in the Politburo until April 2012. From May 2012, he devoted himself to his post as Honorary Curator of the Arms and Equipment Museum of the Korean People's Army.

Jon Pyong-ho died of an acute heart attack in July 2014 at the age of 88. On this occasion, a state mourning committee was formed with the head of state Kim Jong-un as chairman. On July 10, 2014, Jon Pyong-ho was buried with a state funeral in the Pyongyang Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery.

Web links

• Biography of KCNA
• Entry in North Korea Leadership Watch (accessed July 29, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ James Pearson: Jon Pyong Ho: Nuclear expert who was individually named by the United Nations in sanctions against the North Koreans. In: The Independent . July 10, 2014, accessed August 9, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Rodong Sinmun pdf July 9, 2014, p. 4 ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Swiss Korea Committee, July 12, 2014: In memory of Jon Pyong Ho

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Jon is the family name here, Pyong-ho is the first name.