Kim Yong-hwan
Chief Secretary of the Pyongyang City Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Assumed office
February 2020
Supreme LeaderKim Jong-un
Preceded byKim Nung-o
Chief Secretary of the Ryanggang Province Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
In office
December 2019  February 2020
Supreme LeaderKim Jong-un
Preceded byLee Sang-won
Succeeded byRi Tae-il
Personal details
CitizenshipNorth Korean
NationalityKorean
Political partyWorkers' Party of Korea
OccupationPolitician

Kim Yong-hwan (Korean: 김영환) is a politician of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). He is a member of the Party Censorship Committee and Chairman of the Pyongyang Party Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Biography

In February 1997, he was appointed first vice-chairman of the Central Court of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In May 2016, at the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea he was elected as a member of the WPK Inspection Commission.[1] After being appointed chairman of the Ryanggang Province Party Committee in December 2019, he was elected chairman of the Pyongyang Party Party Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea at the Political Bureau expanded meeting on February 29, 2020.[2]

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