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Kim yong nam, a quintessential North Korean North Korean state media reported Tuesday that the bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head for two decades has died.
Kim Yong Nam, the former chairman of the Presidium of North Korea’s rubber-stamp Supreme People’s Assembly, died on Monday at the age of 97, the Korean Central News Agency said on Tuesday.
KCNA said the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Jong Un On Tuesday, they visited the funeral pyre of Kim Yong Nam and expressed deep condolence over his death.
Kim Yong Nam served as head of the Supreme People’s Assembly from 1998 to April 2019. The post is North Korea’s nominal head of state, although real power rests with the Kim family who have ruled the North since its formal establishment in 1948.
Kim Jong Nam regularly delivered propaganda-filled speeches with a deep, booming voice at major state events and appeared in state media greeting foreign dignitaries on behalf of current leader Kim Jong Un and his late father. Kim Jong Il,
In February 2018, she traveled to South Korea with Kim Jong Un’s influential sister Kim Yo Jong to attend the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Olympics, as Pyongyang sought better relations with her. soul and Washington after a year of escalated hostilities on the Korean Peninsula.
The visit made Kim Jong Nam the highest-level North Korean official to visit South Korea since Kim Jong Un sent a top military officer to attend the closing ceremony of the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.
At the Pyeongchang opening ceremony, Kim Yong Nam and Kim Yo Jong sat at the feet of US Vice President Mike Pence, although the two sides made no apparent contact.
North Korea’s brief period of diplomatic openness peaked with summits between Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in 2018 and 2019, but Kim Jong Nam did not attend them and was seen to have waning influence due to his age.