N. Korean official in charge of ties with South dies: Pyongyang
- 8 years ago
A close aide of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un who was in charge of ties with the South has been killed in a traffic accident, Pyongyang's state media said Wednesday.
"Comrade Kim Yang-Gon, a Workers' Party secretary and member of the party Central Committee Politbureau... died in a traffic accident at 6:15 am Tuesday at age 73," the North's Korean Central News Agency said.
KCNA said Kim Jong-Un would head a state funeral on Thursday for Kim, who had served three generations of country's ruling dynasty.
It hailed Kim Yang-Gon as a faithful revolutionary of late leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il and "the dearest and the most trustworthy comrade-in-arms" of current leader Kim Jong-Un.
His death was a "great loss" to the party and the people, KCNA said, praising him for his "admirable loyalty and competence".
Kim's death is widely seen as a blow to efforts for dialogue and reconciliation between the two rivals.
"Comrade Kim Yang-Gon, a Workers' Party secretary and member of the party Central Committee Politbureau... died in a traffic accident at 6:15 am Tuesday at age 73," the North's Korean Central News Agency said.
KCNA said Kim Jong-Un would head a state funeral on Thursday for Kim, who had served three generations of country's ruling dynasty.
It hailed Kim Yang-Gon as a faithful revolutionary of late leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il and "the dearest and the most trustworthy comrade-in-arms" of current leader Kim Jong-Un.
His death was a "great loss" to the party and the people, KCNA said, praising him for his "admirable loyalty and competence".
Kim's death is widely seen as a blow to efforts for dialogue and reconciliation between the two rivals.