North Korea Leadership Watch

Research and Analysis on the DPRK Leadership

Kim Yong Ju

Kim Yong Ju

Honorary Vice President of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) Presidium

Former Member, CC KWP Political Bureau

Former CC KWP Secretary of Organization

Former Vice Premier

Kim Il Sung’s youngest brother

Career

1954: Chief Cadre, CC KWP Organization and Guidance Department

1957: Deputy Director, CC KWP Organization and Guidance Department

1960: Director, CC KWP Organization Guidance Department

1961: Elected, Member, CC KWP

1962: Deputy, 3rd SPA

1966: Elected, Alternate Member, CC KWP Political Bureau

1967: Member, Presidium, 4th SPA

Delegate, 4th SPA

1969: (December) CC KWP Secretary of Organization

1972: Co-chairman, North-South Coordinating Committee

Member, Central People’s Committee

Deputy, 5th SPA

1974: Deputy Prime Minister, DPRK

1993: Member, CC KWP Political Bureau

Member, CC KWP

1994: Member, Kim Il Sung Funeral Committee

1995: Member, O Jin U Funeral Committee

1997: Member, Choe Kwang Funeral Committee

1998: Deputy, 10th SPA

Honorary Vice President, SPA Presidium

2003: Deputy, 11th SPA

2009: Deputy, 12th SPA

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