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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Kim Yong Nam is dead. For two decades he was North Korea's ceremonial head of state. Kim Jong Un personally paid tribute to the loyal diplomats.
The former president of the Supreme People's Assembly and honorary head of state of North Korea , Kim Yong Nam , died at 97 years of age due to a multi-organ failure resulting from "cancerous" poisoning, reported on Tuesday by the state news agency KCNA and collected Europa Press. Asian country leader Kim Jong Un , has already visited Kim Yong Nam's coffin to express his "most heartfelt condolences" on the death, this Monday, of a citizen whom t…
The North Korean regime is in mourning for the death of one of its most prominent figures. Kim Yong-nam, who served as the official head of state and was an extreme defender of the Kim dynasty, died Monday at age 97 due to a multi-organ failure linked to cancer, as reported by North Korean state media this Tuesday. Kim held heavy positions under the baton of the three great North Korean leaders, with whom he does not share kinship: the country’s…
He served from 1998 to 2019.
South Korea expressed its condolences after the death of the former President of the Supreme Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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