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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Choe Thae-bok
| image               = 
| caption             = Photograph of Choe Thae-bok
| native_name         = {{nobold|최태복}}
| office              = [[Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly]]
| term_start          = 5 September 1998
| term_end            = 11 April 2019
| successor           = [[Pak Thae-song]]
| predecessor         = [[Yang Hyong-sop]]
| party               = [[Workers' Party of Korea]]
| education           = [[Mangyongdae Revolutionary School]]
| alma_mater          = [[Kim Il Sung University]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1930|12|1|df=yes}}
| birth_place         = [[Namp'o]], [[Korea under Japanese rule|Chōsen]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2024|1|20|1930|12|1|df=yes}}
| death_place         = 
| module              = {{Infobox Korean name
| child               = yes
| hangul              = 최태복
| hanja               = 崔泰福
| rr                  = Choe Taebok
| mr                  = Ch'oe T'aebok
| context             = north
}}
| native_name_lang    = ko
}}'''Choe Thae-bok''' (1 December 1930<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2010/201009/news29/20100929-07ee.html "Profiles of Presidium and Members of Political Bureau"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092716/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2010/201009/news29/20100929-07ee.html |date=2015-04-02 }}, KCNA, 29 September 2010.</ref> – 20 January 2024) was a [[North Korea]]n politician. He is a member of the Politburo and the Secretariat of the [[Workers' Party of Korea]]. He was Chairman (speaker) of the [[Supreme People's Assembly]] for nearly 21 years, from 1998 to 2019. He was an advisor to [[Kim Jong-il]].<ref name ="nklw">[http://nkleadershipwatch.wordpress.com/leadership-biographies/choe-tae-pok-choe-thae-bok/ Choe T’ae-pok (Choe Thae Bok)], North Korea Leadership Watch.</ref>

Choe died from a [[heart attack]] on 20 January 2024, at the age of 93.<ref>[http://www.rodong.rep.kp/ko/index.php?OEAyMDI0LTAxLTIxLU4wMDRAMkBAQDFAMw== 최태복동지의 서거에 대한 부고] {{in lang|ko}}</ref>

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