Mun Kyong-dok

In this Korean name, the family name is Mun.
Mun Kyong-dok
문경덕
Chief Secretary of WPK North Pyongan Provincial Committee
In office
10 January 2021 – 28 December 2023
Preceded byHimself (as Chairman)
Succeeded byPark Seong-cheol
Chairman of WPK North Pyongan Provincial Committee
In office
2018 – 10 January 2021
Preceded byKim Nung-o
Succeeded byHimself (as Secretary)
Chief Secretary of WPK Pyongyang Municipal Committee
In office
July 2010 – March 2014
Preceded byChoe Yong-rim
Succeeded byKim Su-gil
Personal details
Born (1957-10-12) 12 October 1957 (age 67)
Taesong-guyok, Pyongyang
Political partyWorkers' Party of Korea
Alma materKim Il Sung University

Mun Kyong-dok (Korean: 문경덕; born October 12, 1957) is a North Korean politician who served as the chief Party secretary of Pyongyang from 2010 to 2014, and the Party chief of North Pyongan Province from 2018 to 2023.[1]

Biography

Born in 1957 in Taesong-guyok, Pyongyang. In October 1973, he joined the Korean People's Army, graduated from Kim Il Sung University, and became a political economy expert.[2] He started working with Jang Song-thaek at the Workers' Party Committee in Pyongyang in the 1970s.[3] He worked in the Kim Il Sung Youth League in the 1980s, where he had responsibility over Red Youth Guards.[2] He became the vice chairman of the Youth League in 1991.[2]

Mun later transferred to the WPK Organization and Guidance Department together with Jang, where he eventually became the section chief and vice director in 1997.[2] Mun was critical for building political loyalty for Jang, and travelled with him to a study tour in South Korea in 2002.[2]

In July 2010, he was appointed as the chief secretary of the WPK Pyongyang Provincial Committee.[2] He also became the Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Sarocheong Committee, Director of the Second Committee, and Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee.[4] He was elected to become a member of the WPK Central Committee and the Secretariat, as well as an alternate member of the Politburo, during the 3rd Party Conference on 28 September 2010. In 2009, he was elected to the 12th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA).[2]

He was member of the funeral committee following the death of Jo Myong-rok in November 2010, death of Kim Jong Il in December 2011, Kim Kuk-thae in December 2013 and Kim Yong-chun and Kim Chol-man in 2018 and Hwang Sun-hui in 2020.

After Jang's execution in 2013, Mun disappeared from the public view, stoking speculation that he was purged due to being a close acquittance of Jang. He was removed from his positions in March 2014.[2] He reappeared in public view in 2018, however, revealing that he was appointed as the Provincial Party Chairman of the North Pyongan Province.[3] In 2019 he was elected to the 14th convocation of the SPA representing 280th electoral district (Kujang).[5]

References

  1. ^ "北, 당 중앙위원 128명, 후보위원 106명 발표". 노컷뉴스 (in Korean). 2016-05-10. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Mun Kyong Dok". North Korea Leadership Watch. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  3. ^ a b "Former aide of Kim Jong-un's executed uncle reinstated". The Korea Times. 4 July 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  4. ^ 정명진 (2010년 9월 29일). “당대표자회, 40년대 해방전후 차세대 기수 전면 등장”. 통일뉴스. 2011년 10월 4일에 확인함.
  5. ^ Jo Jung-hoon (12 March 2019). 북 김정은, 최고인민회의 대의원 처음 빠져: (추가) 북 언론, 687명 대의원 명단 발표...당 부위원장들 포함 (명단). Tongil News (in Korean). Retrieved 18 March 2019.
Party political offices
Preceded by Chairman of WPK Pyongyang Provincial Committee
2010-2014 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chairman of WPK North Pyongan Provincial Committee
2018 		Incumbent