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Kim Nung-o

Kim Nung-o (김능오, born in the late 1960s) is a North Korean politician. He is the chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) Party Committee of Pyongyang. Kim is also a full member of the Central Committee of the WPK and an alternate member of its Politburo.

Kim Nung-o was born in the late 1960s. He was educated at Kim Il-sung University.^[2]

Kim has worked at various departments of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), being a vice director of the Finance and Accounting Department in 2013. He was first mentioned by North Korean media on 1 November 2014 when he was accompanying Kim Jong-un on a guidance tourofPyongyang International Airport.^[3] Kim Nung-o became the chief secretary of the Party Committee of North Pyongan Province in December 2015, replacing Ri Man-gon. He subsequently become the chairman of the Party Committee.^[2] He now serves as the chairman of the Party Committee of the capital Pyongyang.^[4]

Kim became a full member of the Central Committee and an alternate member of the Politburo of the WPK at the 7th Congress of the WPK in May 2016.^[2] In January 2019, Kim gave a speech at a mass rally at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang,^[4] praising Kim Jong-un's New Year Address and urging inhabitants of the city to increase efforts to attain a self-reliant socialist economy.^[5]

• Politics of North Korea