Ri Hyok Chol

Ri Hyok Chol (also known as Ri Hyong Chol)

DPRK Ambassador To Egypt

Education:

Baccalaureate, Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies

Career

1977: Research Officer, International Affair Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1978: Chief Cadre, Communications Department, Party Central Committee

1981: Cadre, International Affairs Department, National Academy of Science

1988: Researcher, DPRK Institute for Non-Proliferation and Peace, Foreign Affairs

1991: Vice President, DPRK Institute for Non-Proliferation and Peace, Foreign Affairs

1994:  Director, Bureau of American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1997:  Ambassador, DPRK Permanent Mission to the UN

2003: Recalled to Pyongyang to Kim Jong Il’s Secretariat

2009: Appointed, DPRK Ambassador to Egypt