Cha Hui-rim

North Korean politician (born 1953)

Cha Hui-rim
차희림

Chairman of Pyongyang People's Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office September 2012
Preceded by	Ryang Man-gil

Personal details
Born	1953 (age 70–71) Pyongyang, North Korea
Political party	Korean Workers'

Cha Hui-rim (Korean: 차희림; born 1953) is a North Korean politician. He is a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the People's Committee of Pyongyang.

Biography

He was born in 1953. He was elected as secretary of the WPK Pyongyang Party Committee in October 2011 after passing through the organizational secretary of the Ministry of Water and Construction. In September 2012, he was appointed chairman of the People's Committee of Pyongyang City as a successor to Ryang Man-gil.^[1] In November 2012, he was a member of the National Sports Coaching Committee. He was elected to the 13th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly and was appointed a member of its Legislative Committee. In May 2016, at the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea he was elected as a candidate member for the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. In April 2017, he was promoted to full member. As of January 2020 he is the state official in charge of Pyongyang^[2]

References

^ “北, 당 중앙위원 128명, 후보위원 106명 발표”. 《노컷뉴스》. 2016년 5월 10일. 2018년 8월 30일에 확인함
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