General Secretary and Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea

Member of the Secretariat of the Workers' Party of Korea, which is headed by a General Secretary

The General Secretary and Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea is a member of the Secretariat of the Workers' Party of Korea, which is headed by a General Secretary (the name of this office has changed throughout North Korean history).

General Secretaries and forerunners

Secretaries

Noter

1. Highest rank the individualattained during tenure.
   The rank does not include the head secretary. For instance, in the 6th Secretariat Kim Jong-il is ranked 1 in this list. Some other lists might rank him as 2 since Kim Il-sung served as General Secretary of the Central Committee.

References

Footnotes

1. Suh 1981, p. 321.
2. Suh 1981, p. 328.
3. Suh 1981, p. 329.
4. Suh 1981, p. 332.

Bibliography

Books:

• Gause, Ken (2013). "The Role and Influence of the Party Apparatus". In Park, Kyung-ae; Snyder, Scott (eds.). North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, and Society. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 19–46. ISBN 978-1442218123.
• Suh, Dae-sook (1981). Korean Communism 1945–1980: A Reference Guide to the Political System (1st ed.). University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0-8248-0740-5.
• Yonguso, Pyonghwa Tongil (1997). Korea and the World. University of California. Research Center for Peace and Unification.

Journal articles:

• Chong-sik Lee (1963). "Politics in North Korea: Pre-Korean War Stage". The China Quarterly (14). Cambridge University Press on behalf of the School of Oriental and African Studies: 3–16. JSTOR 651339.