Kim Jung-hyop

Kim Jung-hyop is a North Korean politician. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, head of the Party's Office of Documents and served as a member of the 13th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly and director of the Documents Management Office of the Central Committee.

Biography

Born in Korea, Empire of Japan in 1938, he was nominated for the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea on December 1992 and was appointed chief of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper in 2003 as the successor to Chil Nam. In 2010, he was dismissed from the head of the Rodong Sinmun, and in September, he was also dismissed from the Party Central Committee candidate. In May 2016, at the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, he was elected a full member of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and head of the Office of Documents and Management.