Ri Ryong-nam
Ri Ryong-nam (Korean: 리룡남, born August 8, 1960) is a politician of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Deputy Prime Minister of the Cabinet and a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. He is delegate to the 12th, 13th and 14th convocations of the Supreme People's Assembly. He is chairman of the North Korean-Syrian Friendship Association and chairman of the North Korean Football Association.
Ri Ryong-nam | |
|---|---|
리룡남 | |
| Deputy Premier of North Korea | |
| Assumed office July 2010 | |
| Supreme Leader | Kim Jong-un |
| Chairman of the DPR Korea Football Association | |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Workers' Party of Korea |
Biography
In 1994, he was appointed as an assistant to the Ministry of Trade in 1998 after passing through the secretary of economic affairs for the North Korean Embassy in Singapore. After rising to the Ministry of Trade in March 2001, he was appointed as the first vice chairman of the North Korea International Trade Promotion Committee in October 2004. Currently, he is chairman of the North Korean-Syria Friendship Association, and since July 2010, he is also chairman of the North Korean Football Association. From March 2008 to September 2016 he served as Minister of External Economic Relations in the Cabinet of North Korea. In September 2010, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. In June 2016, he was appointed Deputy Premier of the Cabinet of North Korea. In April 2017 he was appointed as a member of the Supreme People's Assembly Foreign Relations Committee. At the time of the death of Pak Song-chol in 2008, Jo Myong-rok in 2010, and Kim Jong-il in 2011, he was a member of their funeral committee.[1]