General Kim Kyok-sik (Korean: 김격식; 5 October 1938 – 10 May 2015) was a defence minister of North Korea.

[2] He was called back to North Korea by the 1980s, serving as an official of the Korean People's Army; he was elected deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly in 1990, appointed member of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in 1991, and promoted to colonel-general in 1992.

[2] He was downgraded from full to alternate member of the WPK Central Committee at the Party Conference in September 2010.

Kim was appointed vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces in August 2011 and promoted to minister in November 2012.

[7] Reports suggest the seizure of a North Korean arms ship in Panama as the reason behind his removal.