Featured White Papers
- 9 critical reasons to automate performance management (SuccessFactors, Inc.)
- The missing link: Driving business results through pay-for-performance (SuccessFactors, Inc.)
- The secret to effective, no-hassle performance reviews (SuccessFactors, Inc.)
Content provided in partnership with
2ND LD: KCNA reports death of N. Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun
Asian Political News, Jan 8, 2007
BEIJING, Jan. 3 Kyodo
(EDS: ADDING INFO)
The Korean Central News Agency, North Korea's official news agency, on Wednesday reported that the country's foreign minister, Paek Nam Sun, has died. He was 77.
In a short dispatch, KCNA said the country's leader Kim Jong Il on Wednesday ''sent a wreath to the bier of the late Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun, deputy to the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, expressing deep condolences over his death.''
DPRK is the acronym for North Korea's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The report did not provide any more details, including when or how he died. But Paek was reportedly in poor health in recent years.
China's official Xinhua News Agency said Paek, who was appointed foreign minister in 1998, died from disease on Tuesday.
In July 2004, Paek met with then Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum in Jakarta. At the meeting they agreed to arrange a reunion between repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga and her family living in the North.
The last major function he attended was the ARF meeting in July last year in Kuala Lumpur.
COPYRIGHT 2007 Kyodo News International, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning
