| Post: | Chairman |
| Body: | the Supreme People's Assembly |
| Insignia: | Emblem of North Korea.svg |
| Insigniacaption: | Emblem of North Korea |
| Incumbent: | Pak In-chol |
| Incumbentsince: | 17 January 2023 |
| Appointer: | Supreme People's Assembly |
| Termlength: | Same as the term of the Supreme People's Assembly |
| Formation: | 8 September 1948 |
| Inaugural: | Ho Hon |
| Native Name: | 최고인민회의 의장 |
The Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly is the presiding officer of the Supreme People's Assembly, the legislature of North Korea.[1]
The Supreme People's Assembly elects a chairman to preside its sessions. Vice chairmen are elected alongside the chairman.
From 1972 until 1998, the chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly was concurrently the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly.[2]
The current chairman is Pak In-chol, who was elected on 23 January 2023.
| No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Party | SPA | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ho Hon 허헌 | 8 September 1948 | 17 August 1951 | Workers' Party of North Korea | 1st | ||
| Workers' Party of Korea | |||||||
| Vacant | |||||||
| 2 | Ri Yong 리영 | 22 December 1953 | 20 September 1957 | Laboring People's Party | |||
| 3 | Choe Won-taek 최원택 | 20 September 1957 | 16 December 1967 | Workers' Party of Korea | 2nd | ||
| 3rd | |||||||
| 4 | Paek Nam-un 백남운 | 16 December 1967 | 28 December 1972 | Workers' Party of Korea | 4th | ||
| 5 | Hwang Jang-yop 황장엽 | 28 December 1972 | 7 April 1983 | Workers' Party of Korea | 5th | ||
| 6th | |||||||
| 7th | |||||||
| 6 | Yang Hyong-sop 양형섭 | 7 April 1983 | 5 September 1998 | Workers' Party of Korea | |||
| 8th | |||||||
| 9th | |||||||
| 7 | Choe Thae-bok 최태복 | 5 September 1998 | 11 April 2019 | Workers' Party of Korea | 10th | ||
| 11th | |||||||
| 12th | |||||||
| 13th | |||||||
| 8 | Pak Thae-song 박태성 | 11 April 2019 | 17 January 2023 | Workers' Party of Korea | 14th | ||
| 9 | Pak In-chol[3] 박인철 | 17 January 2023 | Incumbent | Workers' Party of Korea | |||