Jon Mun-sop | |
Birth Date: | 24 November 1919 |
Birth Place: | Manchuria |
Office1: | Vice President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly |
Term Start1: | 10 September 1998 |
Term End1: | December 1998 |
Party: | Workers' Party of Korea |
Jon Mun-sop (November 24, 1919 – December 29, 1998[1]) was a North Korean politician, member of the Supreme People's Assembly, the unicameral parliament of North Korea.
Jon was born in Manchuria on November 24, 1919.[2] He took part in the armed struggle against the Japanese colonial rule in Korea[3] at age 18. With the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and became a vice Minister of Public Safety in 1963, chairman of the Control Committee in 1972 and a party Politburo member in 1976.[4] Since October 1980 he was member of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. He was Honorable one of four Vice Presidents of the Presidium of the 10th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly.