Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Democratic People's Republic of
North-Korea/ Chosen Michu-chui Inmin Kongwa-guk (Female suffrage 1946) Japanese Colony 1910-45,
Russian occupation 1945-48, Independence 1948
Also see Korea Heads and North Korea Parliament
1948-57 Minister of Culture Ho
Chong-suk
1957 Minister of Justice
1958-66 Vice-Minister of Light Industry Kim Pok-sin
1971-81 Minister of Textile and Paper Manufacturing Industry
1981-circa 2002 Vice-Chairperson of the Council of Ministers of the Administration
Council and Chairperson of
the Committee for Light Industry
Deputy Director of the Puongyang Local General Bureau of Industry 1966-69 and appointed Alternate member of the Politburo
in 1983. (b. 1925-)
1961-63 Minister of Agriculture
Pak Chong-se
Member of the Politburo as the only female member to date
1962-63 Minister of Commerce Yin
Yang-suk
1967-72 Minister of Textile and Paper Industries
1966-72 Minister of Culture Pak
Yong-sin
1967-72 Minister of Foodstuff and
Daily Necessities Industries Yi Ho-hyok
1980-98 Minister of Finance Yun
Gi-jong
Firste elected member of the SPA from 1946, and among many other posts, she
was First Deputy Director of the General Department for Overseas Korean
Affairs around 1989, President of the Democratic Front for the Reunification
of the Fatherland and
1988-2003 Head of the Light Industry
Division of the Worker’s Party Economic Policy Audit Department Kim Kyung-hee
2010- Member of the Political Bureau of the Worker's Party and General
in the Korean People's Army
2012- Party Secretary and Director of
the WPK Organisation and Guidance Department
2013- Member of the Executive
Committee of the Worker's Party
The sister of the Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, and had direct access to him in decision-making, bypassing the department chief. She held various official posts
from 1976. Apparently she was removed from power in 2003 together with her
husband, and reappeared in public in 2009. Her nephew, Kim Jong-un, became Supreme Leader in 2012 she is believed
to act as a kind of "regent" - until 2013 together with her husband, Jang Sung-taek, who was removed from power
several times and executed. She remained powerful. (b.
1946-)
Circa 2002- Vice Minister of City Management Ri Hui Gyong
Until 2009 Vice-Minister of Machine-Building Industry Han
Kwang Bok
2009-circa 2012 Minister of Electronics Industry
2010-circa 2012 Deputy Prime
Minister
A director in the central committee of the WPK from 2012. (b. 1946-).
2009- Chairperson of the Korean Committee for Cultural
Relations with Foreign Countries Kim Jong Suk
Former editor-in-chief of
the North Korean newspaper Minju Choson, or Democratic Korea. Widow of a
former foreign minister.
2010-12 Deputy Prime Minister and Alternate
Member of the Political Bureau of the Worker's Party
Kim Rak Hui
Former Vice Department Director of the
Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chief Secretary the
South Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the WPK 2005-10. She lived (1933-2013)
2014- Vice-Director of the Workers Party's Propaganda and Agitation
Department Kim Yo-jong
Held senior posts in the WPK Central Committee. In
In October 2014 she was reported to have possibly taken over state duties
for her ailing brother, Kim Jong-Un, while he
underwent medical treatment. (b. 1987-)
Updates 04.12.14