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Choe Thae-bok

Politician

Choe Thae-bok is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Choe Thae-bok · Ch’oe T’ae Bok · Cshö Thebok · Цой Тхэ Бок · צ'ו טה בוק · 3 more...				[sources]
Alias	Ch'oe T'ae Bok · צ'ו טה בוק · צ'ו ת'י-בוק · 崔泰福 · 최태복				[sources]
Birth date	1930-12-01				[sources]
Place of birth	Nampo				[sources]
Death date	2024-01-20				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	North Korea				[sources]
Country	North Korea				[sources]
Citizenship	North Korea				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Last name	Cui				[sources]
Political association	Workers’ Party of Korea				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q710692				[sources]
Position	Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly (1998-2019) · Supreme People’s Assembly (member, 2014-) · education minister · member of the Supreme People's Assembly (1982-2019)				[sources]
Education	Mangyongdae Revolutionary School				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

North Korean politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Supreme People's Assembly	1982-02-01	2019-01-01
member of the Supreme People's Assembly

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,232

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata355,584

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,461

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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