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# Hong Sung Mu 홍승무 

Member of the WPK Central Committee

alive 84 years old 

Hong Sung-mu is a North Korean nuclear weapons scientist and a Workers' Party of Korea official working with North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and space programs. He is the deputy director of the party's Machine Building Industry Department and plays a key part in the country's nuclear weapons program. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%5FSung-mu)

Born

1942-01-01, Pyongyang, North Korea

Height

Unknown 

Weight

Unknown 

Status as of

2026-09-01

Also known as

Hong Sung-mu

## Positions

1. 2016–now Member of the WPK Central Committee · Workers' Party of Korea [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%5FSung-mu)

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