No seat is verified: the state news agency (kcna.kp) and the state portal Naenara returned HTTP 503 to automated access. Cabinet seats follow Wikipedia's 15th Cabinet page (edited 9 October 2026); the CIA World Leaders list was last updated in January 2023 and was not used. 'Since' is the date the holder first took the post as given there. That page names Kim Chol-nam both as Minister of Disaster Management and as Minister of Education; it is unclear whether these are two people of the same name or an error, and neither seat could be checked elsewhere. The 15th State Affairs Commission page gives Pang Tu-sop's title as Minister of Social Security; the cabinet page calls it Public Security. Defence: No Kwang-chol was dismissed on 29 August 2026 (prk-taipei-defence-2026), after the Wikipedia pages were compiled. Commission chairs, the Cabinet Secretary-General and heads of the central bank, statistics bureau and academy of sciences are not recorded. Names use the hyphenated McCune-Reischauer-style romanisation of the sources. Party is given only for the two leaders.
North Korea is an one-party state (workers' party of korea leads two minor parties)[1]. The head of state is President of the State Affairs Kim Jong Un[3][4][5]. The government is led by Premier of the Cabinet Pak Thae-song, in office since 22 Mar 2026[3][6]. Govpedia records 44 members of its cabinet.
At a glance[2]
Leadership
Head of state
SourcedPresident of the State Affairs · 29 Jun 2016 – present[3][4][5]
Re-elected by the first session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly on 22 March 2026. He is also General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea. The Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (Jo Yong-won since March 2026) was formerly regarded as the nominal head of state.
Head of government
SourcedIn government: Workers' Party of Korea
Executive
0 of 44 verified on official pages
The Cabinet was elected by the first session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly on 22 March 2026, on the proposal of Premier Pak Thae-song. The ministers of national defence, state security and social security are subordinate to the State Affairs Commission rather than the Cabinet; they are listed here as cabinet-level seats. Dates are the start of each minister’s current term in this government.
Digital government
UN E-Government Development Index[10]
2024
0.232rank 184 of 193
Record of changes
29 Aug 2026
No Kwang-chol is dismissed as Minister of National Defence in a military leadership reshuffle and replaced by Kim Song-gi, director of the KPA General Political Bureau, according to KCNA as reported by the Taipei Times.[9]
Sourced22 Mar 2026
After the 15 March election, the first session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly re-elects Kim Jong Un as President of the State Affairs, re-elects Pak Thae-song as Premier and elects the 15th Cabinet; Jo Yong-won becomes Chairman of the SPA Standing Committee.[5][6][7][8]
Sourced20 Jan 2026
Kim Jong Un dismisses Yang Sung-ho as Vice Premier in charge of machinery.[8]
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