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Yeon Hyeong-muk
Premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from 1989 to 1992, Yeon was born to a revolutionary family in North Hamgyeong Province.
YEON HYEONG-MUK (1931-2005). Premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from 1989 to 1992, Yeon was born to a revolutionary family in North Hamgyeong Province. He was educated at the Mangyeongdae Revolutionary School, at Kim Il Sung University, and in Czechoslovakia (some reports say in the former Soviet Union), where he studied engineering. He first came to prominence as an official of the Korean Workers' Party (KWP), specializing in matters relating to heavy industry. He became a secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1968, then an alternate and later a full member of the Politburo. By the end of the 1970s, Yeon began to take on government roles in addition to his party functions. In 1985, he became head (minister equivalent) of the metal and machine industry commission and a deputy premier. Later that same year, he became first deputy premier, and then in 1989, premier. In this role, he played an active part in the DPRK-Republic of Korea contacts during the early 1990s. He was dismissed as premier and also demoted to alternate member of the Politburo in 1992, becoming chief secretary of the Jagang Province party committee. However, he retained his position as a member of the National Defense Commission (NDC), to which he was appointed in 1988, and he became an NDC vice chair in 2003. He was also a member of the Supreme People's Assembly, first elected in 1967. He received various honors, including Labor
Hero and the Order of Kim Il Sung. He served on the funeral committee for Kim Il Sung in 1994, when he was ranked 21st, and 18th for the funeral committee for O Jin-u.
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Hero and the Order of Kim Il Sung. He served on the funeral committee for Kim Il Sung in 1994, when he was ranked 21st, and 18th for the funeral committee for O Jin-u.
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