Former ambassador to Bangladesh becomes vice FM

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Former ambassador to Bangladesh becomes vice FM

North Korea appoints Sin Hong Chol new vice minister of foreign affairs

John G. Grisafi February 19, 2015

Former ambassador to Bangladesh becomes vice FM

North Korea has appointed Sin Hong Chol a vice minister of foreign affairs, the Korean Central News Agency revealed Wednesday.

Sin, a former ambassador, became a vice minister in the DPRK’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs some time before Wednesday, when he attended a reception by Cuban Ambassador to the DPRK German Hermin Ferras Alvarez at the Cuban embassy in Pyongyang.

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John G. Grisafi

John G. Grisafi is an analyst and Korean linguist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Having previously worked as an analyst for the United States Army in South Korea and studied Korean at the Defense Language Institute, he is now majoring in East Asian Languages & Civilization and History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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