Impact Player: Hwang Pyong-so

Informing audiences about key policy makers in issue areas of importance to U.S.-Korea relations.

Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong-so is the Director of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) General Political Department (GPD) and was recently confirmed as a standing member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK). He is widely seen as the number 2 figure in North Korea because of these two powerful positions in both the party and the military.