Background
Kim, Yong-Nam was born in 1925 in North Korea.
Kim, Yong-Nam was born in 1925 in North Korea.
Graduate, Kim Sung Il University, Pyongyang. Graduate, University Moscow.
Vice foreign minister, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, 1962. Vice-premier and minister foreign affairs, 1983—1998. Delegate Supreme People's Assembly (Supreme People's Assembly), chairman of presidium, since 1998.
Chairman Committee for Cultural Relations With Foreign Countries.
Member Korean Worker's Party, since 1970, secretary 1975, political commissar 1977-1983, director international department and chairman committee of peaceful reunification of fatherland. Member Politburo, since 1980.