Mun Kyong-dok

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	문경덕
Hancha	文 京 德
Revised Romanization	Mun Gyeong-deok
McCune- Reischauer	Mun Kyŏngtŏk
See also : Korean name

Mun Kyong-dok (born October 12, 1957 in Pyongyang ) is a North Korean politician of the Labor Party of Korea (PdAK), who is among other things a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee (Central Committee ) of the PdAK, Secretary of the Central Committee and First Secretary of the PdAK of Pyongyang is.

Life

Mun Kyong-dok completed after his military service in the People's Army to study economics at Kim Il-sung University . His political engagement began in 1975 together with Chang Sung-taek in the city committee of the PdAK in Pyongyang, before he became a member of the socialist youth association "Kim Il-sung" in the 1980s , where he was responsible as section head for the Red Youth Guards, one of the reserve units the People's Army. In 1991 he became vice-chairman of the socialist youth organization "Kim Il-sung".

In 1997, Mun changed as head of the section together with Chang Sung-taek to the Central Committee for Organizational Management, where he was the latter's deputy head of the department. He was Chang's closest collaborator in building political loyalty and networking between the second and third generation of party members. During this activity he went on a study trip to South Korea with Chang and Pak Nam-ki and became director of the Korea General Teyang Corporation in 2002 and, for the first time, deputy of the Supreme People's Assembly in 2003 , of which he is still a member. However, like a number of other party officials with ties to Kim Kyŏng-hŭi and Chang Sung-taek, he no longer appeared in North Korea's public life between 2003 and 2006. In 2007 he became deputy head of the Central Committee for workers' organization.

In July 2010, Mun Kyong-dok was elected to succeed Choe Yong-rim, who was appointed Prime Minister , as First Secretary of the Pyongyang PDAK. This is a mayor-like party function with a prestigious political profile and leadership network, typically of a personality with ties to the Kim family or close ties to members of the center of power in North Korea.

At the third party conference of the Labor Party of Korea on September 28, 2010 , Mun was elected as a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee, a member of the Central Committee Secretariat and a member of the Central Committee of the PdAK. In October 2010, he headed a delegation of provincial committee secretaries on a working visit to the People's Republic of China . In May 2013 he received a delegation from Laos in Pyongyang.

Web links

• Biography in North Korea Leadership Watch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ North Korea: Embracing the dragon . In: Asia Times Online, October 28, 2010
2. ↑ Mun Kyong Dok Meets Delegation of Vientiane City of Laos ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Korean Central News Agency, May 22, 2013 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Mun is the family name here, Kyong-dok is the first name.