Pak Jong-ju (born 14 March 1997) is a North Korean weightlifter[1][2] competing in the 69 kg and 62 kg categories until 2018 and 67 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.

[3] He was the Gold Medalist at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics[4] in the 62 kg category.

In 2018 he competed in the newly created 67 kg division at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships and finished sixth.

[5] He competed at the 2019 IWF World Cup (a qualifying event for the 2020 Summer Olympics) held in Fuzhou.

[6] He won a gold medal in the total with 318 kg competing in the 67 kg division.