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The General Secretary and Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea is a member of the Secretariat of the Workers' Party of Korea, which is headed by a General Secretary (the name of this office has changed throughout North Korean history).
The Secretariat of the Workers' Party of Korea, formerly known as the Executive Policy Bureau (2016–21), manages the work of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea and its Presidium. The General Secretary leads the work of the Secretariat, and the body is composed of several members (known as "secretaries").
The office of General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea was left vacant for 116 days and was later abolished. Instead, Kim Jong Un was elected First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea on 11 April 2012, and his father, Kim Jong Il, was given the appellation "Eternal General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea". [ 14 ]
A year later on 24 June 1949, the Workers' Party of Korea was created with the merger of the WPNK and the Workers' Party of South Korea. [21] Kim Il Sung was not the most ardent supporter of a military reunification of Korea; that role was played by the South Korean communists, headed by Pak Hon-yong. [22]
Jo Yong-won (Korean: 조용원, born 1957 [1]) is a North Korean politician and a deputy chief of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK)'s Secretariat of General Secretary Kim Jong Un. He was a vice director of the WPK Organization and Guidance Department (OGD).
In April 2005, he was appointed as a member in the Cabinet of North Korea. In May 2014, the during the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea he was elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea In 2019, Yu A was elected as secretary of state by the people of North Korea. This was heavily supported ...
North Korea's regime vowed to take up its "toughest" policies against the U.S. at a meeting of the country's ruling party last week. The Dec. 23-27 meeting featured top members of the Workers ...
According to other reports, she underwent surgery for a brain tumour in 2013 and was left in a vegetative state. [15] On 8 December 2013, Jang was publicly expelled from the ruling Workers' Party of Korea. Jang was accused of factionalism, corruption, and a range of misbehaviour that included affairs with other women.