Ryu Mi-yong
Ryu Mi-yong (14 February 1921 – 23 November 2016) was the chairwoman of the North Korean Chondoist Chongu Party. She was a standing committee member of the 10th Supreme People's Assembly. She was known as a South Korean defectors, defector from South Korea to the North. Biography Ryu was the only daughter born in Harbin to Korean independence movement, independence activist :ko:유동열, Ryu dong ryol.She married Choe Deok-sin in 1937 in China. She and her husband Choe Deok-sin defected to the North in 1986. In 2000, she led a delegation of defectors to the South on an officially sanctioned reunion with family they left behind. Ryu died of lung cancer in November 2016. Ryu's second son, :ko::최인국, Choe In-guk, reportedly defected to North Korea in July 2019. Ryu had received the Order of Kim Il-sung, Order of Kim Jong-il and National Reunification Prize. On her funeral committee were: # Yang Hyong-sop # Kim Yong-chol # Kim Yong-dae (politician), Kim Yong-dae # Jon Yong ...
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Yonhap News Agency
Yonhap News Agency is a major South Korean news agency. It is based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures and other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea. History Yonhap (, , translit. ''Yeonhap''; meaning "united" in Korean) was established on 19 December 1980, through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press. The Hapdong News Agency itself emerged in late 1945 out of the short-lived Kukje News, which had operated for two months out of the office of the Domei, the former Japanese news agency that had functioned in Korea during the Japanese colonial era. In 1999 Yonhap took over the Naewoe News Agency. Naewoe was a South Korea government-affiliated organization, created in the mid 1970s, and tasked with publishing information and analysis on North Korea from a South Korean perspective through books and journals. Naewoe was known to have close links with South Korea's intelligence agency, and according to the B ...
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Kim Yong-dae (politician)
Kim Yong-dae (, born 12 December 1937) is a North Korean politician. He is the chairman of the National Reconciliation Council. He was the leader of the Korean Social Democratic Party from 1998 to 2019. Career Kim Yong-dae was born on 12 December 1937 in South Hamgyong Province. He is a graduate of Kim Il-sung University, where he completed a three-year course. Kim became the Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party in September 1989. He became its Chairman in August 1998. Kim was succeeded by Pak Yong-il in 2019. Kim was first elected a member of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) in the 1990 North Korean parliamentary election. As the parliament began its session, Kim was chosen as the Vice Chairman of its Foreign Affairs committee and a member of the Credentials Committee. Next year, he became the President of the Parliamentary North Korea–Indonesia Friendship Group, Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary North Korea–Iran Friendship G ...
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DPRK 20th Anniversary Order
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone. North Korea's border with South Korea is a disputed border as both countries claim the entirety of the Korean Peninsula. The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. North Korea, like its southern counterpart, claims to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city. In 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan. In 1945, after the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, Korea was divided into two zones along the 38th parallel, with the north occupied by the Soviet Union and the south occupied by the United Sta ...
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DPRK Order Of Labor
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone. North Korea's border with South Korea is a disputed border as both countries claim the entirety of the Korean Peninsula. The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. North Korea, like its southern counterpart, claims to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city. In 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan. In 1945, after the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, Korea was divided into two zones along the 38th parallel, with the north occupied by the Soviet Union and the south occupied by the United ...
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DPRK Ribbon Bar - Order Of National Flag 1st Class
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone. North Korea's border with South Korea is a disputed border as both countries claim the entirety of the Korean Peninsula. The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. North Korea, like its southern counterpart, claims to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city. In 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan. In 1945, after the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, Korea was divided into two zones along the 38th parallel, with the north occupied by the Soviet Union and the south occupied by the United Stat ...
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PRK Order Of Kim Il Sung BAR
PRK can refer to: * North Korea's ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code * Photorefractive keratectomy, laser eye surgery * Phase reversal keying, a form of phase-shift keying * People's Republic of Korea, short-lived 1945 government * People's Republic of Kampuchea, 1979-1989 * Port Kent (Amtrak station), New York, US station code * Phosphoribulokinase, an enzyme * Puneeth Rajkumar, an Indian Kannada-language Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native sp ...

PRK Kim Il Sung Prize Kim Jong Il Prize BAR
PRK can refer to: * North Korea's ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code * Photorefractive keratectomy, laser eye surgery * Phase reversal keying, a form of phase-shift keying * People's Republic of Korea, short-lived 1945 government * People's Republic of Kampuchea, 1979-1989 * Port Kent (Amtrak station), New York, US station code * Phosphoribulokinase, an enzyme * Puneeth Rajkumar, an Indian Kannada-language Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native sp ...

Yun Jong-ho
Yun may refer to: *Yǔn Xionites, Chionites, or Chionitae (Middle Persian: ''Xiyōn'' or ''Hiyōn''; Avestan: ''Xiiaona''; Sogdian language, Sogdian ''xwn''; Zoroastrian Middle Persian, Pahlavi ''Xyon'') were a nomadic people in the Central Asian regions of Transoxiana ...

Pak Myong-chol
Pak Myong-chol (; born 15 September 1941) is a North Korean political figure who joined the 6th Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party in September 2010, along with Kim Jong-un. He has served in several important posts in North Korea, including on the National Defence Commission and as Minister of Physical Culture and Sports in the Cabinet of North Korea. Life and career Pak Myong-chol was born on 15 September 1941, in the northwestern Korean county of Uiju. When Pak was 17 or 18 years old, in 1959, his father Pak Jong-ho () was sent to South Korea on a mission from North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and captured and killed. Consequently the North Korean leader reportedly told the young Pak and his siblings that he, Kim Il-sung, would "look after them." Pak has been involved in the administration of sport in various high posts in North Korea since at least 1975. He served as the head of North Korea's Olympic Committee in 1992 (a role which he reprised in 2004), and ser ...
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Kim Jong-sung
Kim or KIM may refer to: Names * Kim (given name) * Kim (surname) ** Kim (Korean surname) *** Kim family (other), several dynasties **** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948 ** Kim, Vietnamese form of Jin (Chinese surname) Languages * Kim language, a language of Chad * Kim language (Sierra Leone), a language of Sierra Leone * kim, the ISO 639 code of the Tofa language of Russia Media * ''Kim'' (album), a 2009 album by Kim Fransson * "Kim" (song), 2000 song by Eminem * "Kim", a song by Tkay Maidza, 2021 * ''Kim'' (novel), by Rudyard Kipling ** ''Kim'' (1950 film), an American adventure film based on the novel ** ''Kim'' (1984 film), a British film based on the novel * "Kim" (''M*A*S*H''), a 1973 episode of the American television show ''M*A*S*H'' * ''Kim'' (magazine), defunct Turkish women's magazine (1992–1999) Organizations * Kenya Independence Movement, a defunct political party in Kenya * Khalifa Islamiyah Minda ...
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