Kim Jong-gak

Kim Jong- gak ( born July 13, 1941 in the province P'yŏngan - namdo ) is a North Korean politician of the Workers' Party of Korea ( WPK ) and Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army ( KPA ), among others, Minister of the People's Armed Forces, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee (CC ) was the WPK and member of the National Defence Commission. Since his dismissal of these roles, he is only a member of the Party Central Committee and deputy of the Supreme People's Assembly.

Life

Officer and Vice - Minister of the People's Armed Forces

Kim Jong- gak completed post-school studies at the Kim Il-sung Military University and was then an officer in the People's Army. During his military career, he served as commander of a battalion deputy commander of a corps, as well as managers of training institutions.

At the 19th plenary session of the 6th Central Committee, he was elected in December 1991 as a candidate of the Party Central Committee and in April 1992 promoted to Colonel-General a few months later. Took place at the 20th Plenum of the 6th Central Committee in December 1992 he was elected member of the Central Committee of the WPK and immediately afterwards he was appointed Vice - Minister of the People's Armed Forces, where he was assigned to no particular remit within the Ministry. Its importance in the party and military hierarchy was made ​​clear by his membership in the funeral committee for Kim Il-sung in July 1994 and O Chin- u in February 1995.

1998 Kim was first elected deputies of the Supreme People's Assembly and heard this since participated. In September 1998, he was confirmed as Vice - Minister of the People's Armed Forces during the opening plenary of the Tenth Supreme People's Assembly and took over following within the ministry leadership roles in political activities in the headquarters of the People's Army as well as military parades and other public events of the armed forces.

General and growing influence within the military hierarchy

Kim Jong- gak, who was promoted in April 2002 to the General, was first published in 2004 in particular for international messages of state press due to his participation in meetings with foreign delegations. In addition, he was a representative of the People's Army in the accreditation of military attaches as well as meetings and receptions of allies such as Russia, Uganda, Cuba and the People's Republic of China. In 2006, he was among a group that met with the then Minister of Defence of People's Republic of China Cao Gangchuan during his visit to Pyongyang. In October 2006, he stopped at the Kim Il-sung Square, the main speech at the festivities marking the testing of nuclear technology.

2007 was one of Kim Jong- gak to the members of a delegation to visit the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in North Korea by Kim Jong- il, and in October 2007 at a major sporting event. Another Hinweits to its growing importance was 2008als he accompanied on visits in Kumsusan palace twice Kim Jong- il, the mausoleum for Kim Jong -il's father, Kim Il-sung. In August 2008 he held while recovering from Kim Jong- il of a stroke, a further key speech commemorating the adoption of the Sŏn'gun leadership by Kim Jong- il. In addition, was responsible for the reception of a delegation of the Vietnamese People's Army during a visit to North Korea in September 2008.

At the first session of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly Kim Jong- gak was officially elected on 9 April 2009 as a member of the extended National Defense Commission. In the following years he was a member, as reported by state media to thirty times the companions Kim Jong -il at concerts and military inspections. In July 2009 he took eleventh place one on a podium at a memorial service to commemorate the 15 anniversary of the death of Kim Il -sung. In November 2009, he led a delegation of the General Political Department of the Ministry of People's Armed Forces in an official visit to the People's Republic of China, with whom he also toured over Jilin Beijing. The end of 2009 he held the key speech at a national meeting in honor of the military hero O Jung - hup.

In May 2010, General Kim led a ceremony at the Ministry of People's Armed Forces in the bronze statues of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong- il and his mother Kim Jong -suk were revealed. He was thus responsible for the first published major speech in honor of the unveiling of a statue of Kim Jong- il.

Appointment as defense minister and dismissal

Kim Jong- gak is part of a group of politicians and military people in the second and third generation of North Korea, who rose to political power center since late 2008. During this time he appeared on several occasions together with General Ri Yong -ho, chief of the General Staff of the People's Army, as he is one of the hardliners who oppose relations with the U.S. and South Korea and bilateral relations between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea suspicious to other states. seen During the power transfer to Kim Jong-un, he played a leading role in education and indoctrination within the People's Army.

On the third caucus Kim was elected on 28 September 2010, a member of the Military Committee of the Central Committee and to the members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee.

Kim, who was promoted in February 2012 as vice- marshal, was appointed as successor to Kim Yong- ch'un Minister of the People's Armed Forces in April 2012 and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee. Just seven months later, however, he was released again in November 2012 as Secretary of Defense and replaced by the former Chief of Staff and former Vice - Minister of the People's Armed Forces Kim Kyok -sik.

At a meeting of the Central Committee of the Party in March 2013 he was removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee and recalled at the seventh session of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly "due to the transmission of other tasks " also from his function as a member of the National Defence Commission. Nevertheless, he remained on the podium during the session of the Supreme People's Assembly and also continued to appear with other members of the party and state leadership.