Jon Mun-sop explained

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.

Biography

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.

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ko:김영일(남성) . nkinfo.unikorea.go.kr . 7 April 2020 . https://nkinfo.unikorea.go.kr/nkp/theme/viewPeople.do?nkpmno=5393 . ko .
  2. Book: North Korea Handbook. 2002. Yonhap News Agency. Seoul. 978-0-7656-3523-5. 800.
  3. Web site: Documents from the 7th Workers' Party Congress . 2020-04-06. en.
  4. Web site: Senior N. Korean lawmaker Jon Mun Sop dies at 79.. 2020-04-06. en.