In September 1948, with the declaration on establishment and conducting of first parliamentary election to the Supreme People's Assembly, he was elected as a member of parliament and was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Director of the Political Security Bureau in the Cabinet of North Korea which was led by PremierKim Il Sung. From March 1951 he served as Minister of Social Security and from October 1952 as Minister of Interior. He continued to support Kim Il Sung after the August Faction Incident, and while most of the Soviet rebels were "returning home" to the Soviet Union, he became one of the few who maintained that position.
He then turned to the legal profession, and was deputy director of the Central Court in November 1960.[4] Since November 1966, he has also been the Information Director of the Workers' Party Liaison Bureau. He was appointed president of the Central Court in December 1972, and was reappointed in April 1982 and December 1986. During the re-election in 1982, he was awarded the Order of Kim Il Sung, and in March 1984, received the Hero of Labor (North Korea).[1] He died on July 18, 1992[1] while in charge of the Central Court. Pak Song-chol was the chairman of the funeral committee.[1]
In April 1956, November 1970 and October 1980, he was elected as member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
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