O Il-jong
Kim Jong-il | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1954 (age 69–70) General |
| Korean name | |
| Chosŏn'gŭl | 오일정 |
| Hancha | |
| Revised Romanization | O Iljeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | O Ilchŏng |
O Il-jong (Korean: 오일정, born 1954) is a North Korean politician and four-star general (대장) of the Korean People's Army.
Biography
O Il-jong was born in 1954 in
In the 1980s, O Il-jong worked in diplomacy, he was the military attaché of the DPRK embassy in Egypt. Then, from 1985, he worked at a state-owned foreign trade company. In 1989 he became the commander of the regiment and then a brigade. He received the general nomination for the rank of major-general (소장) in April 1992. From November 1994 he was the commander of the 26th Division in the 4th Corps of the Korean People's Army.
During the 3rd Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea on September 28, 2010, he was appointed director of the Military Department of the WPK Central Committee, (replacing Kim Song-gyu), was promoted to a two-star Major-General, and was also a member of the Central Committee for the first time. In April 2011 he was promoted to the rank of colonel general.
After the death of
It was reported in January 2017, that O Il-jong along with his two other brothers who are O Il-hun and O Il-su had been purged by
References
- ^ "오일정 (吳日晶)O Il Jong". Archived from the original on 2021-05-08. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b 오일정(남성)). 북한정보포털 (in Korean). 통일부. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ "KJI Funeral Rankings comparison" (XLSX). NK News. December 2011. Ranking. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ Jeong Yong-soo, Lee Sung-eun (24 January 2017). "Jong-un purges three sons of revered O Jin-u". Korea JoongAng Daily.
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