# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ri-pyong-chol
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:22:06.167Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ri-pyong-chol"
name: "Ri Pyong-chol"
slug: "ri-pyong-chol"
description: "Ri Pyong-chol is a North Korean military official and formerly a top advisor of supreme leader Kim Jong Un, who serves as Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission and a member of the Presidium of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea. He is a relative of Kim's wife, Ri Sol-ju. He currently also serves as a director of a department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and First Deputy Director of the WPK Organization and Guidance Department (OGD). General Ri's military and senior Party experience make him an important advisor to Kim Jong Un, especially during crisis. He is an alternate member of the WPK Political Bureau, and a deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly. Ri served in the Korean People's Army Air Force until 2014 at which time he became a senior party official."
tagline: "North Korean politician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.864908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E7%82%B3%E5%93%B2"
    title: "李炳哲"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "رى بيونج تشول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri_Pyong-chol"
    title: "Ri Pyong-chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri_Pyong-chol"
    title: "Ri Pyong-chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri_Pyong-chol"
    title: "Ri Pyong-chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E7%82%B3%E9%89%84"
    title: "李炳鉄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EB%B3%91%EC%B2%A0_(%EC%A0%95%EC%B9%98%EC%9D%B8)"
    title: "리병철 (정치인)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri_Py%C5%8Fng_Ch%E2%80%99%C5%8Fl"
    title: "Ri Pyŏng Ch’ŏl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8_%D0%9F%D1%91%D0%BD_%D0%A7%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Ри Пён Чхоль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ABalangkas%2FRi_Pyong-chol"
    title: "Wikipedia:Balangkas/Ri Pyong-chol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%96_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A7%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Рі Пен Чхоль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5367054"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump