{{Short description|North Korean politician, vice premier of North Korea}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Pak Jong-gun | native_name = {{nobold|박정근}} | native_name_lang = ko | image = | caption = | office = Vice Premier of North Korea | order = | term_start = 2013 | term_end = | deputy = | 1blankname = {{nowrap|Supreme Leader}} | 1namedata = Kim Jong Un | predecessor = | successor = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = North Korean | nickname = | allegiance = | branch = | service_years = | rank = | commands = | battles = | education = | mawards = | party = Workers' Party of Korea | module = {{Infobox Korean name/auto | hangul = %박정근 | hanja = | child = yes}} }} '''Pak Jong-gun''' ({{langx|ko|박정근}}) is a North Korean politician who is serving as a member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea and Vice Premier of North Korea as well as chairman of the National Planning Commission.<ref name="CabinetMembership">{{Cite web | title = Members of DPRK Cabinet Appointed | agency = KCNA Watch | date = 18 January 2011 | access-date =2023-01-09 | url = https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1610922033-846461152/members-of-dprk-cabinet-appointed/ | archive-date =2021-02-10 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210210132316/https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1610922033-846461152/members-of-dprk-cabinet-appointed/}}</ref>
==Biography== In January 2021 he was promoted to a member of the 8th Central Committee at the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, and was elected as a candidate member of the Politburo as a vice-chairman of the National Planning Commission at the 1st Central Committee of the 8th Congress on January 10. On December 31, 2021, he was promoted to a member of the Politburo at the 4th Plenary Session of the 8th Workers' Party of Korea and head of the National Planning Commission under the Cabinet of North Korea.<ref name="Cabinetzoom">{{Cite web | title = DPRK Cabinet Zooms Plenary Meeting | agency = NK Leadership Watch |date = 5 March 2021 |access-date = 2023-01-09| url = https://www.nkleadershipwatch.org/2021/03/05/dprk-cabinet-zooms-plenary-meeting/}}</ref> On April 10, he was included in the group of leaders at the Central Reporting Conference on the 10th anniversary of the appointment of Kim Jong Un.<ref name="plenary">{{Cite web | title = Analysis on North Korea's 4 th Plenary Meeting of the 8 th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea | publisher= Korea Institute for National Unification |date = 1 January 2021 |access-date = 2023-01-09| url =https://www.kinu.or.kr/2022/eng/0101/co22-01e.pdf}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pak, Jong-gun}} Category:Living people Category:Workers' Party of Korea politicians Category:Members of the 8th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea Category:Members of the 9th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea Category:Vice premiers of North Korea Category:Year of birth missing (living people)