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Oliver Hotham
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Update on 02/16/2019 at 1430 KST: This piece has been updated to include further details provided by a source.
Kwon Jong Gun, a former North Korean diplomat at the UN, is now head of the North Korean foreign ministry's North America Department, a social media post by the Russian embassy in Pyongyang said on Thursday.