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# Pak Jong Gun 박정근 

alive 82 years old 

Vice Premier of the Cabinet and Chairman of the State Planning Commission, holding direct control over the formulation of North Korea's central state economic plans, grain distributions, and industrial material quotas. Elevated to full Politburo membership in late 2021, he is the key architect of central economic planning targets. 

Born

1944-09-07, North Hamgyong Province

Height

Unknown 

Weight

Unknown 

Status as of

2026-09-01

Also known as

Pak Jong-gun

Machine-readable: [/api/people/pak-jong-gun](https://savenorthkorea.org/api/people/pak-jong-gun) · [Wikidata Q12597103](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12597103) · Photo: [KCNA via Ministry of Unification North Korea Information Portal](https://nkinfo.unikorea.go.kr/nkp/prsn/view.do?menuId=PEOPLE%5F86&prsnMngNo=2905) (Fair use)