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Pak Nam-gi
Pak Nam-gi has long been seen as a leading figure in the economic development of North Korea.
PAK NAM-GI (1928– ). Pak Nam-gi has long been seen as a leading figure in the economic development of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and has survived the economic ups and downs of recent years. Like many others, he has occupied party, state, and parliamentary positions interchangeably over the years. Born in Haeju, he was trained as a mechanical engineer in Czechoslovakia. He first came to notice in May 1972, when he was a vice minister of the metal industry, and in 1976 he was appointed vice chairman of the State Planning Commission. In July 1984, he moved into a party role as a member of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers’ Party (KWP) and as vice director of its Second Economic Affairs Department. In December 1984, he became the Central Committee’s secretary of economic affairs. In September 1985, he was elected a member of the Central Committee’s Economic Policy Inspection Committee. In November 1986, he was a delegate to the Eighth
Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) and the following month a member of its Budget Committee. In October 1988, he became chairman of the State Planning Commission (thus in charge of the whole economy) and the Central Committee’s secretary for economic affairs in November. Reelected to the SPA in 1990, he was appointed chairman of its Budget Committee.
In 1993, he was removed from his various party and state positions, but not demoted, since he was appointed chairman of the Administrative and Economic Committee of the Pyongyang municipality. His next move, in1997, when he became chairman of the District Planning Committee of North Hwanghae Province, might have been a demotion or it might have been to broaden his experience. If it was a demotion, it did not last long, and in September 1998, Pak was back as chairman of the State Planning Commission, a post he held until April 2009. He also occupied a number of party posts relating to economic affairs, in particular the director of the Central Commit-tee’s Finance and Planning Department from September 2005. He chaired the budget committees of the 11th SPA in 2003 and the 12th in 2009. He remains a KWP Central Committee member. He has twice been awarded the Order of Kim Il Sung, in April 1985 and again in April 1992. He served on the Kim Il Sung funeral committee in 1994.
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Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) and the following month a member of its Budget Committee. In October 1988, he became chairman of the State Planning Commission (thus in charge of the whole economy) and the Central Committee’s secretary for economic affairs in November. Reelected to the SPA in 1990, he was appointed chairman of its Budget Committee.
In 1993, he was removed from his various party and state positions, but not demoted, since he was appointed chairman of the Administrative and Economic Committee of the Pyongyang municipality. His next move, in1997, when he became chairman of the District Planning Committee of North Hwanghae Province, might have been a demotion or it might have been to broaden his experience. If it was a demotion, it did not last long, and in September 1998, Pak was back as chairman of the State Planning Commission, a post he held until April 2009. He also occupied a number of party posts relating to economic affairs, in particular the director of the Central Commit-tee’s Finance and Planning Department from September 2005. He chaired the budget committees of the 11th SPA in 2003 and the 12th in 2009. He remains a KWP Central Committee member. He has twice been awarded the Order of Kim Il Sung, in April 1985 and again in April 1992. He served on the Kim Il Sung funeral committee in 1994.
All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. (Historical Dictionary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, by James E. Hoare, published by RLPG Books, appears by permission of the author and publisher).
