| Honorific Prefix: | General | ||||||||
| Jo Kyong-chol | |||||||||
| Office: | Commander of the Military Security Command | ||||||||
| Term Start: | ? | ||||||||
| 1Namedata: | Kim Jong Un | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | North Korea | ||||||||
| Nationality: | Korean | ||||||||
| Citizenship: | North Korean | ||||||||
| Branch: | Korean People's Army | ||||||||
| Rank: | General | ||||||||
| Commands: | Military Security Command | ||||||||
| Party: | Workers' Party of Korea | ||||||||
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Jo Kyong-chol (Korean: 조경철) is a North Korean politician and officer who is serving as the commander of the Military Security Command[1] [2] and a member of the WPK Central Military Commission.[3]
He is assumed to be born in 1944 or 1945. In 2009 he was elected as a member of the 12th convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly.[4] He participated in the purges of officials, among them of Jang Song-thaek in 2013. In June 2022 he was promoted to a member of the Central Military Commission. He is under sanctions of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.[5] In 2015 he was ranked 47 in the funeral committee of Jon Pyong-ho[6] and following the death of Kim Jong Il a member of his funeral committee.[7] [8] [9]