Li Jong-ok

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

Life

Ri Jong -ok, a companion of the first head of state of the DPRK, Kim Il-sung, and belonged to the end of Japanese rule over Korea whose anti-Japanese guerrilla army. In the socialist DPRK founded in 1948, he held various positions in the state apparatus and the leading party of the DPRK, the Workers' Party of Korea ( WPK ). From 1977 to 1984 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) and 1984-1998 officially Vice 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 WPK. Since the death of Kim Il-sung and the de facto takeover by his son Kim Jong- il in 1994, but Ri was increasingly displaced from the district of state leadership elite.

Publications

Ri Dschong Ok: greeting address to the XI. Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. ( in: Proceedings of the XI Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Dietz Verlag Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-320-00663-0. .. )

Council of Ministers Chairman ( North Korea)
North Koreans
Born 1916
Died in 1999
Man
WPK Member

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