Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly

The Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly (Korean: 최고인민회의 의장) is the presiding officer of the Supreme People's Assembly, the legislature of North Korea.^[1]

Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly of People's Democratic Republic of Korea
최고인민회의 의장
Emblem of North Korea
Flag of North Korea
Incumbent Pak In-chol since 17 January 2023
Appointer	Supreme People's Assembly
Term length	Same as the term of the Supreme People's Assembly
Inaugural holder	Ho Hon
Formation	8 September 1948

The Supreme People's Assembly elects a chairman to preside its sessions.^[1] Vice chairmen are elected alongside the chairman.^[1]

From 1972 until 1998, the chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly was concurrently the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly.^[2]

The current chairman is Pak In-chol, who was elected on 23 January 2023.^[3]

List of office holders

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Party		SPA
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Ho Hon 허헌 (1885–1951)	8 September 1948	17 August 1951	2 years, 343 days		Workers' Party of North Korea (until 1949)	1st
							Workers' Party of Korea (from 1949)
Vacant (17 August 1951 – 22 December 1953)
2		Ri Yong 리영 (1889–1960)	22 December 1953	20 September 1957	3 years, 272 days		Laboring People's Party
3		Choe Won-taek 최원택 (1895–1973)	20 September 1957	16 December 1967	10 years, 87 days		Workers' Party of Korea	2nd
								3rd
4		Paek Nam-un 백남운 (1894–1976)	16 December 1967	28 December 1972	5 years, 12 days		Workers' Party of Korea	4th
5		Hwang Jang-yop 황장엽 (1923–2010)	28 December 1972	7 April 1983	10 years, 100 days		Workers' Party of Korea	5th
								6th
								7th
6		Yang Hyong-sop 양형섭 (1925–2022)	7 April 1983	5 September 1998	15 years, 151 days		Workers' Party of Korea
								8th
								9th
7		Choe Thae-bok 최태복 (1930–2024)	5 September 1998	11 April 2019	20 years, 218 days		Workers' Party of Korea	10th
								11th
								12th
								13th
8		Pak Thae-song 박태성 (born 1955)	11 April 2019	17 January 2023	3 years, 281 days		Workers' Party of Korea	14th
9		Pak In-chol[3] 박인철	17 January 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 212 days		Workers' Party of Korea

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