Jon Pyong-ho

Jon Pyong -ho ( born March 20, 1926 in Chagang -do) is a North Korean politician of the Workers' Party of Korea ( WPK ), who is currently chief secretary of the Party Committee of Government and Director of the Political Bureau of the Government. As a member of the Central Military Commission from 1990 to 2011 and as Secretary of the Central Committee (CC ) of the Party for the military and munitions industry 1986-2010 decades he was a key figure in the development of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons in North Korea.

Life

Jon, who comes from a family of migrant farm workers, holds a degree in mechanical engineering in North Korea as well as in the Soviet Union and, after finishing his studies in 1951 an employee of the tractor factory in Kanggye. Subsequently, he was from 1956 to 1970 instructor in the organization department of the Party. There he helped in the 1960s, the head of the department, Kim Yong -ju in the grounds of the undisputed supremacy of his older brother Kim Il-sung, and it at this time to purge the party of " military adventurers " and the so-called " Kapsan " faction.

In recognition, he was elected at the Fifth Party Congress in 1970 as a candidate of the Party Central Committee and appointed vice - director of the party offices for engineering industries. 1971 this office has been combined with other military- economic production units of the party, government and military to the Second Economic Commission, which was under the WPK. Jon Pyong -ho, director of the General Office of the Second Economic Commission and at the same time the chief secretary of the local party committee in 1972. Later he became vice - chairman and finally First Vice -Chair of the Second Economic Commission.

At the Sixth Congress of the WPK Jon was elected in October 1980 as a member of the Central Committee and elected at the seventh parliamentary term in 1982 Deputies of the Supreme People's Assembly. At the same time he became a candidate of the Politburo. In the 1980s he was repeatedly temporary Chairman of the Second Economic Commission and finally elected at the 12th Plenum of the Central Committee of 6 December 27, 1986 Secretary of the WPK Central Committee for Military and ammunition industry. Nearly two years later he was elected to the held between the 28th and 30 November 1988 Plenum of the 14th Central Committee of 6 as a member of the Politburo. In May 1990, finally, he was elected member of the National Defence Commission. In these roles, he had significant influence in the development of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons by North Korea and is regarded as the chief planner of the first two nuclear tests in the country in the years 1996 and 1999.

2010 Jon Pyong -ho was appointed and at the same time to the chief secretary of the Party Committee of the Government as Director of the Political Bureau of the Government of North Korea. At the Third Party Conference of the WPK he was, he was re-elected as a member of the Politburo on 28 September 2010. In April 2010, Jon resigned as member of the National Defence Commission.