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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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…
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.
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.
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