T'ae Chong-su

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	태종 수
Hancha	太 鐘 洙
Revised Romanization	Tae Jong-su
McCune- Reischauer	T'ae Chongsu
See also : Korean name

T'ae Chong-su (born March 20, 1936 in Hamgyŏng-pukto province ) 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 (ZK) of the PdAK and first secretary of the PdAK Hamgyŏng-namdo Province is.

Life

Chong-su T'ae graduated after attending the Revolutionary School of Mangyongdae study at Kim Il-sung University and in 1970 became first secretary of the WPK the province of North Pyongan , before the director of the precision machinery factory in 1976 Huichon appointed has been. On the VI. At the PdAK party congress in October 1980 he was elected as a candidate for the Central Committee and gave one of the speeches on the fourth day of this party congress on October 13, 1980. In the 1980s he served as party secretary in the cabinet secretariat and as minister for the shipbuilding industry, before becoming first party secretary of the Taean-gun heavy machinery construction combine in the 1990s .

On October 17, 2007, T'ae Chong-su was appointed deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and in June 2009 for the first time the first secretary of the PdAK of Hamgyŏng-namdo Province. In this capacity he took part in Kim Jong-il's regular inspection trips . He then acted as a member of the PdAK secretariat between June 2010 and 2012 as well as head of the General Affairs Department of the Central Committee and was one of the members of the delegation to the state visit of Kim Jong-il in the People's Republic of China in May and August 2010 .

In 2010 he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the PdAK and a candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee. As a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee and head of the General Department, he was confirmed at the same time and in this function he oversaw the delivery of documents and other administrative and logistical issues within the central party organs during the transition from Kim Jong-il to Kim Jong-un . Furthermore, he was a constant companion of Kim Kong-ils on trips, public appearances and inspection trips.

After Kim Jong-il's death on December 17, 2011, T'ae Chong-su remained a member of the central party leadership, although the frequency of his public appearances decreased. In June 2012, he appeared in a report of the State television about the return of participants of the Korean Children's Union in Central Station of Hamhung after returning from celebrations for the anniversary of the Children's Union in Pyongyang , where he reflected in the report as First Secretary of the Party of the province Hamgyŏng- namdo was designated. A little later he also appeared in a picture with the new party chairman Kim Jong-un, although he did not belong to the group of functionaries of the Central Party Organization. In September 2012, together with another PdAK secretary from Hamgyŏng-namdo, he was shown on state television laying a flower arrangement on a statue of Kim Jong-suk , Kim Jong-il's mother and Kim Jong-uns' grandmother. At the end of September 2012, he sat on the grandstand during the sixth session of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly and in October 2012 took part in the celebrations for the foundation day of the Mangyŏngdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang. His position as first secretary of the PdAK of Hamgyŏng-namdo Province was also confirmed during a trip through the province by the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to North Korea, Liu Hongcai.

Web links

• Biography in North Korea Leadership Watch

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. T'ae is the family name here, Chong-su is the first name.