Choe Sang-gon


Choe Sang-gon is a politician of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and member of the 13th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly. He is Higher Education Minister in the Cabinet of North Korea and the President of Kim Il-sung University.

Biography

In 2008, he received a Ph.D. from the National Degree Conferment Ceremony, and was appointed Vice Chairman and then Chairman of the National Science and Technology Committee in August 2012 as a successor to Lizbag. In 2014, he served as deputy to the 13th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly, and in May 2016 he became a member of the 7th convocation of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.