Ri Yong-gil

Ri Yong-gil, believed to be in 60s, is a North Korean general.

Ri was made a lieutenant general in April 2002 and given command of the forward-deployed 5th Army Corps from 2007 to 2012. He was promoted to colonel general and elected member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in 2010. He was promoted to his current position as chief of the General Staff Operations Bureau in late 2012, in charge of coordinating KPA corps commanders and reporting to the chief of General Staff and the Supreme Command.

Ri was appointed chief of General Staff in August 2013 as well as promoted to general around the same time.