Formed April 8 Agency executive Sim Chol-ho, Minister Founded 1999 | Jurisdiction North Korea Parent agency Cabinet of North Korea Headquarters Chung-guyok, Pyongyang | |
Child agency North Korean postal service Parent organization eLandia International, Inc. | ||
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (Chosŏn'gŭl: 체신성; Hancha: 遞信省) is a government ministry in North Korea which is responsible for the North Korean postal service, telephone system and media such as television and print press. Additionally, the ministry is responsible for mint stamps. The current minister is Sim Chol-ho, who was appointed to the post on February 2012. In 2010 the ministry participated in cyber-attack on South Korea using an IP address leased from China. Sim Chol-ho was reported executed in a February 2016 article.
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Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (North Korea) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA