[3][4] Kim is also a deputy to the 13th Supreme People's Assembly.
[1] In 1989, he was appointed Secretary of Organization of the WPK Pyongyang City Committee.
In 1997 he was appointed Chief Secretary of the North Pyongan Province provincial committee and chair of the provincial people's committee, serving until 2003.
In 1998 he was elected a deputy to the 10th Supreme People's Assembly.
He led the Cadre Department of the party, serving simultaneously as vice-chairman of the Central Committee (the position was called "secretary of the Central Committee" until 2016).