Pae Tal-jun is a high-ranking North Korea

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

n politician and bureaucrat. He currently serves as Minister of State Construction Control and as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Union of Architects. He was appointed to the Ministerial post in 1998 by the 10th Supreme People's Assembly

Supreme People's Assembly

The Supreme People's Assembly is the unicameral parliament of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , commonly known as North Korea...

, at which he was also a delegate.

Pae also served as a delegate to the Assembly's 11th session in 2003. In 2004, he was awarded the Order of Kim Il-sung.

Pae is a graduate of Bratislava University of Czechoslovakia. He began his career as a city planner in Pyongyang in 1966, becoming a vice chairman of the State Construction Committee in 1983.

See also

• Politics of North Korea
  Politics of North Korea
  The politics of North Korea take place within a nominally democratic multi-party system within the framework of the official state philosophy, Juche, a concept created by the founder of the North Korean state, Kim Il-sung, and his son and successor as leader, Kim Jong-il. In practice, North Korea...
  
  
• List of Koreans