Pak Jong-gun
{{Short description|North Korean politician, vice premier of North Korea}}
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| party = Workers' Party of Korea
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| hangul = 박정근
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| mr = Pak Chŏngkŭn
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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.{{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/}}
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.{{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/}} 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.{{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}}