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. 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, 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 Bong-hun reportedly being one of them. ==References==