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Jong Kyong Thaek 정경택

member of State Affairs Commission

alive65 years oldSanctioned: OFAC

Jong Kyong-thaek is a North Korean politician. He served as the Minister of State Security from 2018 to 2022, a member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, an alternate member of the Politburo of the WPK, and a member of the State Affairs Commission of North Korea. Wikipedia

Born
1961, Chagang Province
Height
Unknown
Weight
Unknown
Status as of
2026-09-01
Also known as
Jong Kyong-thaek

Positions

  1. 2018–2022Minister of State Securitysource
  2. ?–nowmember of State Affairs Commissionsource
  3. ?–nowmember of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Koreasource

Notable

  • 2018-12 Sanctioned by the US Treasury in December 2018 for supervising arbitrary detention, torture, and extrajudicial killings as head of the Ministry of State Security.source

Sanctions

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