Kang Bong-hun (Korean: 강봉훈) was a politician of North Korea.
In May 2016, during the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea he was elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
[1] In April 2019, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea as well as Chagang Province Provincial Party Committee Secretary, replacing Kim Jae-ryong,[2] who was appointed to the Premier of North Korea.
However, he was dismissed late July by Kim Jong-un after he, amongst 20-30 other North Korean party officials, failed to prevent the July 27 Yalu River flood, which had trapped 7,000 residents.
It is reported by a South Korean news outlet that Kim Jong-un then executed the officials in a short amount of time, Kang Bom-hun reportedly being one of them.