Ri Yong Ho was appointed Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) according to a diplomatic note from the DPRK embassy in London to the government of the United Kingdom, dated May 16.
Until now, Ri Yong Ho (not to be confused with the other Ri Yong Ho, a senior officer of the Korean People’s Army who was removed from all posts in 2012) has served as a vice minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Pyongyang’s point man on nuclear negotiations such as the Six-Party Talks.
Ri Yong Ho was appointed Foreign Minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) according to a diplomatic note from the DPRK embassy in London to the government of the United Kingdom, dated May 16.
Until now, Ri Yong Ho (not to be confused with the other Ri Yong Ho, a senior officer of the Korean People’s Army who was removed from all posts in 2012) has served as a vice minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Pyongyang’s point man on nuclear negotiations such as the Six-Party Talks.
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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.