Ho Dam

Ho Dam

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	허담
Hancha	許 錟
Revised Romanization	Heo Dam
McCune- Reischauer	Hŏ Dam
See also : Korean name

Ho Dam (born March 6, 1929 in Wŏnsan , † May 11, 1991 in Pyongyang ), also known as Heo Tam , Heo Dam or Ho Tam was a North Korean politician .

Before 1945, Ho Dam worked as a miner and lathe operator. From 1948 he studied for some time at Moscow's Lomonosov University . In 1956 he became head of the Asia department of the North Korean Foreign Ministry . In 1962 he became Deputy Foreign Minister and in 1970 Foreign Minister. He remained in this office until 1983.

In November 1970, Ho was elected to the Central Committee of the Labor Party of Korea and had been a candidate for the Politburo since 1980 . Around October 1989 he was chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland and received the US official Gaston Sigur .

According to the official North Korean press agency, the politician is said to have died on May 11, 1991 after a long illness. No precise information was given as to which illness was involved.

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• Tai Sung An: North Korea. A political handbook. Wilmington (Delaware): Scholarly Resources Inc. 1983. ISBN 0-8420-2205-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TELEGRAM FROM PYONGYANG TO BUCHAREST, SECRET, URGENT, NO. 060.180. Retrieved December 8, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Yur-Bok Lee, Wayne Patterson (ed.): Korean-American Relations: 1866-1997 . State University of New York Press, Albany 1999, ISBN 0-7914-4025-7 , pp. 124 ( limited preview ).
3. ↑ Ho Dam; North Korean Official, 62. In: New York Times . May 14, 1991, accessed December 8, 2017 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ho is the family name here, Dam is the first name.