Ro Tu-chol

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	로 두철
Hancha	盧 斗 哲
Revised Romanization	Ro Du-cheol
McCune- Reischauer	Ro cloth'ŏl
See also : Korean name

Ro Tu-chol (* 1944 ) is a North Korean politician of the Labor Party of Korea (PdAK), who, among other things, is a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the PdAK, Chairman of the State Planning Commission, Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers and a member of the Central Committee of the PdAK is.

Life

Ro Tu-chol became General Director of the Electronic Automation Planning Bureau in June 1992 and Vice-Chairman of the State Planning Commission in November 1992. In April 1998 he was appointed chairman of the material and supply commission and in July 1998 he was elected for the first time as a deputy of the Supreme People's Assembly .

Ro, who was appointed vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers in September 2003, was re-elected as a deputy of the Supreme People's Assembly in 2003 and most recently in 2009 and thus belongs to the Supreme People's Assembly , where he represents constituency 604. In April 2009, he also succeeded Kim Kwang-rin as chairman of the State Planning Commission.

At the third party conference of the Korean Labor Party on September 28, 2010 , he was elected a member of the Central Committee. At the fourth party conference in April 2012, he was also elected as a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee.

Web links

• Biography in North Korea Leadership Watch
• CV (PDF; 41 kB) in North Korea Leadership Watch
• Korea, North Chiefs of State 2013

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rüdiger Frank , James E. Hoare, Patrick Köllner, Susan Pares: Korea 2010: Politics, Economy and Society , 2010, p. 52, ISBN 9-00418-535-6

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ro is the family name here, Tu-chol is the first name.