Jon Pyong Ho (Photo: Rodong Sinmun).
Former Workers’ Party of Korea [WPK] Secretary and Director of the WPK Munitions Industries Department and Member of the DPRK National Defense Commission Jon Pyong Ho passed away on 7 July 2014 from a heart attack at the age of 88. Jon was a key figure in the DPRK’s development of ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons and space programs, supervising the country’s two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, test launches of the Taepodong missile in 1998 and 2006 and a 2009 launch of the U’nha-2. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Second Economy Commission [SEC], which is responsible for the production of conventional arms and weapons of mass destruction [WMDs]. He was a member of the SEC at its inception in 1971 and served as Vice Chairman and Chairman of the SEC. Jon effectively retired from active involvement in the DPRK’s weapons industries as 2012 and had served as honorary curator of the Korean People’s Army [KPA] Exhibition of Arms and Equipment.
Jon Pyong Ho’s death announcement as published in the 9 July 2014 edition of Rodong Sinmun.
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