Cabinet of North Korea

Cabinet of North Korea

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Formed	1948 (current, 2013)
Jurisdiction	North Korea
Headquarters	Pyongyang
Minister responsible	Pak Pong-ju, Premier of North Korea
Website	Minju Choson, the official newspaper of the Cabinet

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The Cabinet of North Korea (Naegak^[1]) is, according to the Constitution of North Korea, the administrative and executive body and a general state-management organ in the Government of North Korea.^[2] The Cabinet's principal newspaper is Minju Choson.

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 Selection
  


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  3 Powers and responsibilities
  


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  4 Structure
  


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  5 See also
  


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  6 References
  


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  7 External links
  

History

The cabinet, headed by Kim Il-sung, visiting Moscow in 1949

In North Korea's first constitution, adopted in 1948, the executive powers were vested in the Cabinet, chaired by Kim Il-sung himself. The 1972 constitution saw the establishment of the post of President of North Korea which led the executive branch, and the cabinet was split into two organizations: The Central People's Committee and the State Administration Council. The Central People's Committee provided the highest visible institutional link between the government and the party and serves in effect as a de facto super-cabinet. The National Defence Commission was then sub-committee of this body.^[3] The CPC's formal powers were all-inclusive and it was chaired by the President.^[4] Among its responsibilities are formulating domestic and foreign policies, directing the work of the State Administration Council and its local organs, directing the judiciary, ensuring the enforcement of the constitution and other laws, appointing or removing the vice premiers and cabinet members, establishing or changing administrative subdivisions or their boundaries, and ratifying or abolishing treaties signed with foreign countries. The CPC also may issue decrees, decisions, and instructions. The State Administration Council was guided by the CPC and was led by a premier (chong-ri) and included vice premiers (bochong-ri), ministers (boojang), committee chairmen, and other cabinet-level members of central agencies. It was responsible for the formulation of state economic development plans and measures for implementing them, the preparation of the state budget, and the handling of other monetary and fiscal matters.^[5]

1982 saw the People's Armed Forces and Public Security Ministries assigned directly to the President together with the State Inspection Commission.

In 1990, by a CPC decision, the NDC became fully independent from it as a separate institution, and 1992 constitutional amendments assigned it directly to the Supreme People's Assembly. In 1998 amendments to the Constitution, the Central People's Committee and the State Administration were abolished, and the Cabinet was re-created. Thus, the Cabinet is not only the highest executive enforcement organ but was also expanded to become the general State management organ.

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"The party organizations and party cadres should not intervene in administrative matters. The party should help the cabinet to be responsible for all economic affairs. Last year we made a new governmental system where the cabinet is supposed to be the control tower of the economy...No organizational unit should handle economic problems without consulting the cabinet".^[6]

Selection

The cabinet is appointed and accountable to the Supreme People's Assembly, the North Korean unicameral parliament. The SPA chooses the Premier of North Korea who appoints three vice premiers and the cabinet's ministers. All members of the cabinet are members of the Workers' Party of Korea which rules the country since its establishment in 1948. While the SPA is not in session, the cabinet is accountable to the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly.^[7]

As of 2000^[update], some 260 people have served as cabinet ministers. Six of them have been women:^[8]Ho Jong-suk (Minister of Culture, Justice), Pak Chong-ae (Agriculture), Yi Yang-suk (Commerce, Textile and Paper Industries), Pak Yong-sin (Culture), Yi Ho-hyok (Foodstuff and Daily Necessities Industries), and Yu Gi-jong (Finance).^[9]

Powers and responsibilities

The Cabinet, as the executive branch of the North Korean state, is responsible for implementing the state's economic policies, as guided by the Workers' Party. The cabinet is not responsible for defense and security issues, as those are handled by the National Defense Commission. Thus, the security organizations such as the Korean People's Army, Ministry of People's Security and State Security Department report and subordinated directly to the National Defense Commission. The Cabinet convenes a plenary meeting and an executive meeting.^[10] The plenary meeting consists of all the Cabinet members, while the executive meeting is kind of a presidium, and comprises fewer people, including the Premier, vice premier and other Cabinet members whom the Premier nominates. The cabinet forms acts in the form of decisions and directives. The Cabinet shall:^[11]

• adopt measures to execute state policy.


• institute, amend, and supplement regulations concerning state management based on the Constitution and departmental laws.


• guide the work of the Cabinet commissions, ministries, direct organs of the Cabinet, local people’s committees.


• set up and remove direct organs of the Cabinet, main administrative economic organizations, and enterprises, and adopt measures to improve the State management structure.


• draft the State plan for the development of the national economy and adopt measures to put it into effect.


• compile the State budget and adopt measures to implement it.


• organize and exercise works in the fields of industry, agriculture, construction, transportation, communications, commerce, trade, land management, city management, education, science, culture, health, physical training, labor administration, environmental protection, tourism and others.


• adopt measures to strengthen the monetary and banking system.


• do inspection and control work to establish a state management order.


• adopt measures to maintain social order, protect State and social cooperation body’s possession and interests, and to guarantee citizens’ rights.


• conclude treaties with foreign countries, and conduct external activities.


• abolish decisions and directions by economic administrative organs, which run counter to the Cabinet decisions or directions.

Those Cabinet ministries that oversee economic sectors also control groups of industries called "complexes". These complexes consist of partially or fully state-owned industrial facilities like factories, mines, or farms, depending on the sector.^[12] At a local level, the Cabinet supervises the Local People's Committees.

Structure

Cabinet positions

Position[13]	Name	Ref.
Premier	Pak Pong-ju	[14]
Vice Premier	Im Chol-ung	[14]
Vice Premier	Jon Kwang-ho	[14]
Vice Premier	Kim Tok-hun	[14]
Vice Premier	Ko In-ho	[14]
Vice Premier	Ri Ju-o	[14]
Vice Premier	Ri Mu-yong	[14]
Vice Premier	Ri Ryong-nam	[14]
Vice Premier	Ro Tu-chol	[14]
Vice Premier	Tong Jong-ho	[14]
Secretary General of the Cabinet Secretariat	Kim Yong-ho	[14]
Minister of Agriculture	Ko In-ho	[14]
Minister of Atomic Energy and Industry	Wang Chang-uk	[14]
Minister of Chemical Industry	Jang Kil-ryong	[14]
Minister of Coal Industry	Mun Myong-hak	[14]
Minister of Commerce	Kim Kyong-nam	[14]
Minister of Common Education	Kim Sung-du	[14]
Minister of Construction and Building-Materials Industries	Tong Jong-ho	[14]
Minister of Culture	Pak Chun-nam	[14]
Minister of Electric Power Industry	Kim Man-su	[14]
Minister of Electronics Industry	Kim Jae-song	[14]
Minister of External Economic Relations	Kim Yong-jae	[14]
Minister of Finance	Ki Kwang-ho	[14]
Minister of Fisheries	Song Chun-sop	[14]
Minister of Food and Consumer Goods Industries	Jo Yong-chol	[14]
Minister of Food Procurement and Administration	Mun Ung-jo	[14]
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Ri Yong-ho	[14]
Minister of Forestry	Han Ryong-guk	[14]
Minister of Higher Education	Thae Hyong-chol	[14]
Minister of Labor	Jong Yong-su	[14]
Minister of Land and Environmental Protection	Kim Kyong-jun	[14]
Minister of Land and Maritime Transport	Kang Jong-gwan	[14]
Minister of Light Industry	Choe Il-ryong	[14]
Minister of Machine-Building Industry	Ri Jong-guk	[14]
Minister of Metallurgical Industry	Kim Chung-gol	[14]
Minister of Mining Industry	Ri Hak-chol	[14]
Minister of Oil Industry	Pae Hak	[14]
Minister of Physical Culture and Sports	Kim Il-guk	[14]
Minister of Post and Telecommunications	Kim Kwang-chol	[14]
Minister of Public Health	Jang Jun-sang	[14]
Minister of Railways	Jang Hyok	[14]
Minister of State Construction Control	Kwon Song-ho	[14]
Minister of State Natural Resources Development	Ri Chun-sam	[14]
Minister of Urban Management	Kang Yong-su	[14]
Chairman of the Capital City Construction Commission	Jo Sok-ho	[14]
Chairman of the Education Commission	Kim Sung-du	[14]
Chairman of the State Commission of Quality Management	Ri Chol-jin	[14]
Chairman of the State Inspection Commission	N/A	[14]
Chairman of the State Planning Commission	Ro Tu-chol	[14]
Chairman of the State Price Commission	Ryang Ui-gyong	[14]
Chairman of the State Science and Technology Commission	Ri Chung-gil	[14]
Director of the Central Statistics Bureau	Choe Sung-ho	[14]
President of the State Academy of Sciences	Jang Chol	[14]
President of the Central Bank	Kim Chon-gyun	[14]

See also

• 
  North Korea portal
  

• Politics of North Korea

References

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2. 
   ^ Article 123 of the Constitution of North Korea
   


3. 
   ^ Article 105 of the 1972 Constitution
   


4. 
   ^ Articles 100-106 of the 1972 Constitution of North Korea
   


5. 
   ^ A Country Study: North Korea- 1993- Library of Congress
   


6. 
   ^ Jae-Cheon Lim. Kim Jong-il's Leadership of North Korea, p. 116
   


7. 
   ^ Article 125 of the Constitution of North Korea
   


8. 
   ^ Lankov, Andrei (2015). The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-19-939003-8.
   


9. 
   ^ Park, Kyung Ae (1994). "Women and Revolution in South and North Korea". In Tétreault, Mary Ann. Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-57003-016-1.
   


10. 
    ^ Article 121 of the Constitution of North Korea
    


11. 
    ^ Article 119 of the Constitution of North Korea
    


12. 
    ^ Madden, Michael (16 January 2019). "The DPRK Political Season: Two Post-Mortems". 38 North. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
    


13. 
    ^ "Organizational Chart of North Korean Leadership" (PDF). Seoul: Political and Military Analysis Division, Intelligence and Analysis Bureau; Ministry of Unification. August 2016. p. 2. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
    


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    ^ ^{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafagahaiajakalamanaoapaqarasatauavawaxayazbabb} "Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Korea, North - NDE". Central Intelligence Agency. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
    

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