Kwon Song Ho

Kwon Song Ho (Kwon So’ng-ho) is the Minister of State Construction Control. He is also an alternate (candidate) member of the Workers’ Party of Korea [WPK] Central Committee and a deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly.

Kwon is an architect by training and worked at the Paektusan Architectural Institute and Ministry of State Construction Control. He was appointed Minister in May 2013 and his appointment was publicized when he attended an architectural aesthetics symposium with other members of the central leadership. In December 2013, he contributed an essay to Minju Joson responding to Kim Jong Un’s (Kim Cho’ng-u’n) letter “Let Us Usher in the Period of Great Prosperity in Construction by Thoroughly Emobdying the Party’s Idea on Chuch’e-based Archtecture.”

Kwon Song Ho was elected a deputy to the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly in March 2014. His appointment to the DPRK Cabinet was affirmed during the first session of the 13th SPA that April.

During the 7th Party Congress in May 2016, Kwon was elected an alternate (candidate) member of the 7th WPK Central Committee.

“Symposium on Architectural Aesthetics Held,” Korean Central News Agency, May 6, 2013; “Collective Technical Workshop Held,” Korean Central News Agency, December 12, 2013; “Let Us Achieve a
Revolutionary Turnabout in the Construction Control Work: A Programmatic Guiding Principle That Has Indicated the Path Toward Toward a New Era of the Fatherland’s Prosperity,” Kwon So’ng-ho, Minju Joson (in Korean), December 14, 2013; “Report of the Central Election Committee on the Election Results of deputies to the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly,” Korean Central News Agency (in Korean), March 11, 2014; Fourth and Final Day of the 7th Party Congress,” NK Leadership Watch, May 10, 2016; “WPK Central Committee and WPK Central Auditing Commission Meet,” NK Leadership Watch, May 10, 2016