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Chol-Hae Hyon

Disqualified · Military · Politician · Sanctioned entity

Chol-Hae Hyon is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Chol Hae Hyon · Chol-Hae Hyon · Hyon Chol Hae · Hyon Chol-hae · Hyŏn Ch’ŏl Hae · 4 more...				[sources]
Other name	Chol Hae Hyon · 현철해				[sources]
Weak alias	ヒョン・チョルヘ				[sources]
Birth date	1934-08-01 · 1934-08-13				[sources]
Place of birth	Kyongsong County · Manchuria · Manchuria China · Yanji				[sources]
Death date	2022-05-19				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	North Korea				[sources]
Country	North Korea				[sources]
Citizenship	North Korea				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
Country of birth	China				[sources]
Description	Deputy Director of the General Political Department of the People’s Armed Forces (military adviser to Kim Jong Il). Designated by the European Union.				[sources]
First name	Chol · Chol-Hae				[sources]
Last name	Hyon				[sources]
Second name	Hae				[sources]
Title	Vice Marshal				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q706128				[sources]
Position	Korean People's Army Marshal · member of the Supreme People's Assembly (1998-2014)				[sources]
Education	Kim Il-sung University · Mangyongdae Revolutionary School				[sources]
Address	North Korea				[sources]
Source link	find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk · www.nknews.org				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-28	Last processed	2025-09-09	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Disqualified

— UK Companies House Disqualified Directors, 2025-06-12

The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

— UK FCDO Sanctions List, 2025-04-09

North Korean marshal (1934－2022)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-09-28

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
United Kingdom	The Insolvency Service		2025-04-09	-

Associates
Associate	Relationship	Start date	End date
Kim Jong Il	Military advisor	-	-

Memberships
Organization	Role	Start date	End date
General Political Department of the People's Armed Forces	Deputy Director	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Supreme People's Assembly	1998-01-01	2014-03-01

Data sources

UK FCDO Sanctions List5,711

UK sanctions collated by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

United Kingdom · FCDO

UK Companies House Disqualified Directors15,571

Individuals which have been disqualified from holding the post of a company director in the United Kingdom following a court decision.

United Kingdom · CoH

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,109

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

DPRK Reports5,506

A database of entities and events related to North Korea's sanctions evasion efforts.

United Kingdom · RUSI · non-official source

UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets6,685

The United Kingdom's consolidated international sanctions list.

United Kingdom · OFSI

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata349,078

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions547,038

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: eu-fsf-eu-4153-60 · mc-freezes-ddc9bf269b58fcc2f6fccd971104d6a40322a225 · gb-hmt-11030 · fr-ga-2464 · kprusi-5bf9fd6e54128de2a2b67fd865c634c78e8b630e · gb-fcdo-dpr0013 · gb-coh-od3qmiludipebt7hi92ioosd0l0 · eu-tb-logical-5601 · NK-kpuSoBVME2pBGAUnvvBXad

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