Hwang Hong Sik, who had served as a political official of units at all levels of the People's Army after graduating from Kim Il Sung University of Politics, greatly contributed to the strengthening of the strategic armed forces of the Party and firmly establishing the Party's monolithic command system in the whole army while working for a long time as the first political commissar of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army and a vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The wreath sent by Kim Jong Un was laid at the grave of Hwang Hong Sik at the Pyongyang Martyrs Cemetery on Nov. 6.