Jo Kyong-chol | |
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Commander of the Military Security Command | |
Assumed office ? | |
Supreme Leader | Kim Jong Un |
Personal details | |
Born | North Korea |
Citizenship | North Korean |
Nationality | Korean |
Political party | Workers' Party of Korea |
Military service | |
Allegiance | North Korea |
Branch/service | Korean People's Army |
Rank | General |
Commands | Military Security Command |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 조경철 |
Revised Romanization | Cho Kyŏngch'ŏl |
McCune–Reischauer | Cho Gyeongcheol |
Jo Kyong-chol (Korean: 조경철) is a North Korean politician and officer who is serving as the commander of the Military Security Command[1][2] and a member of the WPK Central Military Commission.[3]
He is assumed to be born in 1944 or 1945. In 2009 he was elected as a member of the 12th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly.[4] He participated in the purges of officials, among them of Jang Song-thaek in 2013. In June 2022 he was promoted to a member of the Central Military Commission. He is under sanctions of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.[5] In 2015 he was ranked 47 in the funeral committee of Jon Pyong-ho[6] and following the death of Kim Jong Il a member of his funeral committee.[7][8][9]