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No Kwang Chol 노광철

Minister of National Defence

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No Kwang-chol is a North Korean soldier, a four-star general, and a member of the political bureau, who served as Minister of Defence of North Korea from 2024 to 2026. He previously held the same office from 2018 to 2019. Wikipedia

Born

1956, Nampo

Height

Unknown

Weight

Unknown

Military rank

General

Status as of

2026-09-01

Also known as

Ro Kwang-chol

Positions

2024–nowMinister of National Defence · Ministry of National Defencesource
2018–2019Minister of People's Armed Forces · Ministry of National Defencesource
?–nowmember of the Supreme People's Assemblysource

Machine-readable: /api/people/no-kwang-chol · Wikidata Q12594098 · Photo: Ministry of Defence (Vadim Savitsky) / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)