Kim Song-nam ( ko, 김성남; born 1953) is a

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

n politician who serves as candidate-member of the

Politburo A politburo () or political bureau is the executive committee for communist parties. It is present in most former and existing communist states. Names The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian ''Politbyuro'' (), itself a contraction ...

of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Biography

Kim was born in

North Pyongan Province North Pyongan Province (Phyŏnganbukto; , also spelled North P'yŏngan), is a western province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former P'yŏng'an Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, th ...

in 1953. He joined the International Department of the Workers' Party of Korea in the 1980s and acted as an interpreter during visits to China by President

Kim Il Sung Kim Il-sung (; , ; born Kim Song-ju, ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he ruled from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of ...

and General Secretary

Kim Jong Il Kim Jong-il (; ; ; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim ...

as well as during meetings with Chinese officials. In January 2010, he was appointed vice director of International Affairs Department of the Workers' Party of Korea. In May 2016, at the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, he was elected as a candidate member of the

Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea ( ko, 조선로동당 중앙위원회) is the highest party body between national meetings of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea. According to WPK rules, the ...

. In October 2017, at the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the 7th Workers' Party of Korea, he was elected as a full member of the Party Central Committee. He is the head of the Party's International Department, replacing

Kim Hyong-jun Kim Hyong-jun ( ko, 김형준, russian: Ким Хён Джун; born November 26, 1949) is a North Korean politician and diplomat. Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, member of the Politburo and member of the State Affairs Commission of ...

and a candidate member of the Politburo.

References

1953 births Living people Date of birth missing (living people) People from North Pyongan Province Workers' Party of Korea politicians 21st-century North Korean politicians {{NorthKorea-politician-stub