Jon Mun-sop

In this Korean name, the family name is Jon.
Jon Mun-sop
Vice President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly
In office
10 September 1998 – December 1998
Personal details
Born(1919-11-24)November 24, 1919
Manchuria
Died29 December 1998(1998-12-29) (aged 79)
Political partyWorkers' 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

  • Jon Mun-sop (1970). "Defend the Revolutionary Banner to the End". Reminiscences of the Anti-Japanese Guerillas. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. OCLC 869368184.
  • — (1977). Taking a Machine Gun Himself. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. OCLC 6423895.

References

  1. ^ 김영일(남성). nkinfo.unikorea.go.kr (in Korean). Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  2. ^ North Korea Handbook. Seoul: Yonhap News Agency. 2002. p. 800. ISBN 978-0-7656-3523-5.
  3. ^ "Documents from the 7th Workers' Party Congress" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  4. ^ "Senior N. Korean lawmaker Jon Mun Sop dies at 79". Retrieved 2020-04-06.