Kwak Pom-gi

Kwak Pom-gi (born 1939) is a North Korean government official.

He has been Vice-Premier of the government since September 5, 1998, and is a member of the Secretariat of the Korean Worker's Party. He is described as a "technocrat" in the North Korean leadership.

On 6 January 2007, at a mass rally in Pyongyang which included Kim Jong-il, he gave a speech praising the North Korean government for building nuclear weapons.

He also addressed the country's "problem of food scarcity" in 2007, saying, "The Cabinet will concentrate state efforts on agriculture this year, too, considering it a mainstay, to thoroughly implement the WPK's policy of agriculture revolution and make a signal advance in the efforts to settle the people's food problem."

He began his career in 1983 as a machine factory manager, progressing through the machinery bureau of the Korean Workers' Party, becoming a cadre candidate of the party's Central Committee in 1993.