US EditionNorth Korea’s longtime ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam has died, Pyongyang says
- KCNA announced Tuesday that Kim Yong Nam died Monday at age 97, and Kim Jong Un visited his bier to express condolences.
- A longtime bureaucrat, Kim Yong Nam held a ceremonial state role for two decades due to loyalty to the Kim dynasty, serving as president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly.
- In February 2018 he traveled to South Korea with Kim Yo Jong, attending the Pyeongchang Olympics opening and becoming the highest-level North Korean official to visit since the Incheon visit.
- Despite earlier prominence, Kim Yong Nam's influence waned with age, and he did not attend the 2018–19 summits with President Donald Trump, observers said.
- He led the Presidium from 1998, heading the Supreme People's Assembly Presidium and shaping North Korea's ceremonial diplomacy and public image abroad.
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An emblematic figure of the North Korean political scene, the former President of the Supreme Assembly leaves behind him a symbolic role as head of state and an influence on inter-Korean dialogue.
Kim Yong Nam, former Prime Minister of the North Korean State and Sustainer throughout his life of the driving dynasty, died at the age of 97, according to state pressure from the Phoenicians, bust BBC News.
North Korea's former symbolic head of state Kim Yong Nam dies
North Korea's former ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam has died at age 97, state media reported on Tuesday. Kim Yong Nam defied the country's purge-prone political scene to serve as head of parliament for 20 years, a role experts suspect he retained by showing deference to the country's supreme leaders.
Kim Yong Nam, who has served for more than 20 years as President of the North Korean Supreme Court, the theoretical head of state, died at the age of 97, announced...
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