Pak To-chun

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	박도춘
Hancha	朴道春
Revised Romanization	Bak Do-chun
McCune- Reischauer	Pak Toch'un
See also : Korean name

Pak To-chun (born March 9, 1944 in Rangrim-gun , Chagang-do ) a North Korean politician of the Labor Party of Korea (PdAK), who is currently a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PdAK, secretary of the PdAK Central Committee for the defense industry and a member of the National Defense Commission . The former party secretary in the defense and mechanical engineering industry is one of the numerous politicians of the second generation after the founding of North Korea, who moved to the center of power in 2010.

Life

Pak To-chun, who became a member of the PdAK in 1960, graduated from the Kim-Il-Sung party college and held numerous positions in the party organization in economic production units, such as secretary and first secretary in combines, liaison instructor to the central party leadership and as Head of a section. In 1998 he was first elected as a deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly and has been a member of it ever since.

In June 2005, Pak was succeeded by the to a pancreatic tumor diseased Yon Hyong-muk first party secretary of the WPK in the province of Chagang-do. The province is home to numerous factories and other production facilities in the field of conventional weapons, military equipment and the mechanical engineering industry. During his tenure as first party secretary, he organized numerous propaganda campaigns such as the "Spirit of Kanggye " or the "Speed ​​of Huichon ", whose economic combines as models in the successor of the Ch'ŏllima movement, the North Korean counterpart to the Chinese economic campaign Big Leap Forward . The province's contributions to the development of CNC technology were also highlighted. During his tenure as First Party Secretary in 2009, on instructions from Kim Il-sung , construction began on the Huichon Reservoir to promote the unity of the Korean People's Army with the third generation of North Korean politicians.

In September 2010 Pak To-chun was elected a member of the Central Committee of the PdAK, candidate of the Politburo of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Committee for the Armaments Industry. In the latter role, he succeeded Jon Pyong-ho , who was a key figure in North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear weapon development for nearly 25 years . Since the end of 2010 his influence within the central party leadership grew and he was one of two civilians who accompanied Kim Jung-il in 2010 on his last field inspection with the People's Army. On April 7, 2011, Pak was finally elected a member of the National Defense Commission, also succeeding Jon Pyong-ho in this capacity.

Web links

• Biography in North Korea Leadership Watch
• North Korea ( Central Intelligence Agency )
• Overview of the military and security hierarchy (PDF; 198 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 당 대표자회, 40 년대 해방 전후 차세대 기수 전면 등장 on tongilnews.com from September 29, 2010 (Korean).

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Pak is the family name here, To-chun is the first name.