Ri Il-hwan is a North Korean politician and a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
10 Facts About Ri Il-hwan
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Ri Il-hwan is currently the director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the party.
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Ri Il-hwan was educated at Kim Il-sung University and the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School.
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Ri Il-hwan was in charge of a KISYL delegation that visited China in March 2000.
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Ri Il-hwan was tasked with South Korean president Kim Dae-jung's visit to the Mangyongdae Children's Palace.
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Ri Il-hwan was present at groundbreaking ceremony of a 30,000-unit housing project near the motorway on 6 April 2001.
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Ri Il-hwan was removed from office in 2002 and was sent away for "revolutionization".
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Ri Il-hwan took part in numerous mass rallies and presided over various public events.
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Ri Il-hwan renewed his director post at the 7th Congress of the WPK in May 2016 and was elected member of the Central Committee of the WPK.
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Ri Il-hwan was re-elected to the SPA in the 2019 election.