{"id":"jo-yong-won","name_en":"Jo Yong Won","name_ko":"조용원","aliases":["Cho Yong-won"],"wikidata":"Q56825089","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Yong-won","image":{"src":"/img/people/jo-yong-won.jpg","credit":"Press Service of the State Duma of the Russian Federation / Wikimedia Commons","license":"CC BY 4.0","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jo_Yong-won_(2026-04-25)_(cropped).jpg"},"born":{"date":"1957","place":"Pyongyang, North Korea"},"died":null,"status":{"value":"alive","as_of":"2026-09-01","source_url":null},"gender":"male","rank":null,"roles":[{"title":"Member of the Politburo Presidium","org_id":"wpk-politburo-presidium","start":"2021-01-10","end":null,"source_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Yong-won"}],"family":[],"health":[],"physical":{"height_cm":null,"weight_kg":null},"sanctions":[{"list":"OFAC","id":"21303","date":null,"source_url":"https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=21303"},{"list":"UN","id":"KPi.043","date":"2017-06-02","source_url":"https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/sanctions/1718/materials"}],"summary":"Jo Yong-won is a North Korean politician who is deputy chief of the Workers' Party of Korea's Secretariat of General Secretary Kim Jong Un. From March until June 2026, he was also the Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's unicameral parliament, and the Chairman of its Standing Committee.","summary_source":"wikipedia","notable":[],"tags":["politburo","security"],"family_resolved":[]}