Kim Nung-o | |
Native Name: | 김능오 |
Office: | Chairman of WPK North Pyongyang Provincial Committee |
Namedata: | Kim Jong-un |
Term Start: | 2016 |
Term End: | 2018 |
Predecessor: | Ri Man-gon |
Successor: | Mun Kyong-dok |
Office1: | Chairman of WPK Pyongyang Provincial Committee |
1Namedata: | Kim Jong-un |
Term Start1: | 2018 |
Term End1: | 2020 |
Predecessor1: | Kim Su-gil |
Successor1: | Kim Yong-hwan |
Party: | Workers' Party of Korea |
Alma Mater: | Kim Il-sung University |
Hangul: | 김능오 |
Rr: | Gim Neungo |
Mr: | Kim Nŭngo |
Context: | north |
Text: | [1] |
Kim Nung-o (Korean: 김능오, born in the late 1960s) is a North Korean politician. He is the chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) Party Committee of Pyongyang. Kim is also a full member of the Central Committee of the WPK and an alternate member of its Politburo.
Kim Nung-o was born in the late 1960s. He was educated at Kim Il-sung University.[2]
Kim has worked at various departments of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), being a vice director of the Finance and Accounting Department in 2013. He was first mentioned by North Korean media on 1 November 2014 when he was accompanying Kim Jong-un on a guidance tour of Pyongyang International Airport.[3] Kim Nung-o became the chief secretary of the Party Committee of North Pyongan Province in December 2015, replacing Ri Man-gon. He subsequently become the chairman of the Party Committee.[2] He now serves as the chairman of the Party Committee of the capital Pyongyang.[4]
Kim became a full member of the Central Committee and an alternate member of the Politburo of the WPK at the 7th Congress of the WPK in May 2016.[2] In January 2019, Kim gave a speech at a mass rally at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang,[4] praising Kim Jong-un's New Year Address and urging inhabitants of the city to increase efforts to attain a self-reliant socialist economy.[5]
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