Ri Jong-ok

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Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	리 종옥
Hancha	李鐘玉
Revised Romanization	Ri Jongok
McCune- Reischauer	Ri Chong'ok
See also : Korean name

Li Jong-ok (1979)

Ri Jong-ok (born January 10, 1916 in Sŏngjin , Hamgyŏng-pukto province ; † September 23, 1999 ) was a politician of the Korean People's Democratic Republic (KDVR), better known as North Korea .

Life

Ri Jong-ok was a companion of the first head of state of the KDVR, Kim Il-sung , and belonged to the anti-Japanese partisan army until the end of the Japanese rule over Korea . In the socialist KDVR, founded in 1948, he held various posts in the state apparatus and the leading party of the KDVR, the Labor Party of Korea (PdAK). From 1977 to 1984 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Head of Government) and from 1984 to 1998 he was officially Deputy President. In 1998 he was elected deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly. At the time of his death in 1999, he was a member of the Central Committee of the PdAK. Since the death of Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il's de facto assumption of power in 1994, however, Ri has been increasingly ousted from the ranks of the state's elite.

Publications

• Ri Dschong Ok: Greeting to the XI. Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. (in: Minutes of the XI. Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Dietz Verlag Berlin 1986. ISBN 3-320-00663-0 )

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ri is the family name here, Jong-ok is the first name.