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Jo Yong Won 조용원

Member of the Politburo Presidium

alive69 years oldSanctioned: OFACSanctioned: UN

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. Wikipedia

Born

1957, Pyongyang, North Korea

Height

Unknown

Weight

Unknown

Status as of

2026-09-01

Also known as

Cho Yong-won

Positions

2021–nowMember of the Politburo Presidium · WPK Politburo Presidiumsource

Sanctions

OFAC · 21303listing
UN · KPi.043 · since 2017-06-02listing

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