Paek Nam-sun

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Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl 백남순
Hancha 白南淳
Revised
Romanization 		Baek Nam-sun
McCune-
Reischauer 		Paek Namsun

Paek Nam-sun (born March 13, 1929 in the province of Kankyō-hokudo , former Japanese Empire , today's North Korea ; † January 2, 2007 ) was the foreign minister of North Korea from 1998 to 2007 .

Life

Paek Nam-sun graduated from Kim-Il-sung University in Pyongyang . He began his political career as vice-chairman of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Labor Party of Korea . From 1972 to 1979 he was ambassador to Poland . He attended the 6th Inter-Korean Red Cross Meetings in Seoul in May 1973 . He took part in the preliminary meeting between the two Vice Prime Ministers of South Korea and North Korea in June 1994. In his position as head of the secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland , which he held from 1990 to 1998, he traveled to South Korea a total of four times for bilateral talks.

His appointment as Foreign Minister in 1998 came as a surprise to observers because he had relatively little experience abroad. Compared to his five predecessors in this office ( Pak Hon-yong , Nam Il , Pak Song-chol , Ho Dam , Kim Yŏng-nam ), he appeared to be lower in the internal hierarchy. He survived a major cabinet reshuffle in 2003 without any damage.

He was considered the most important contact person abroad and was called an expert on South Korea.

death

The state-run North Korean news agency KCNA reported on January 3, 2007 that President Kim Jong-il had sent a wreath to Paek Nam-sun's bier and expressed his condolences to family members. Further information on the exact date of death and the cause of death were not given.

The American news agency Associated Press quoted the official Chinese news agency Xinhua on January 4th , according to which Paek Nam-sun, who suffered from kidney disease, died of kidney failure on January 2nd.

family

His third son Paek Ryong-chon has been President of the North Korean Central Bank since December 2007 .

literature

  • Yonhap News Agency (2004): Korea Annual 2004. Who's who: North Korea , pp. 787-812. Seoul: Author. ISBN 89-7433-070-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tagesspiegel.de: Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun has died. dated January 3, 2007
  2. ↑ KCNA : Kim Jong Il Sends Wreath to Bier of Late Paek Nam Sun. ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated January 3, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kcna.co.jp
  3. ^ Jae-Soon Chang / Associated Press: Paek Nam Sun, 78, North Korean Diplomat. In: washingtonpost.com of January 4, 2007
  4. ^ Yonhap News: Son of N. Korea's late foreign minister named central bank chief, March 8, 2011
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Paek is the family name here, Nam-sun is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Paek, Nam-sun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 백남순 (Hangeul); 白南淳 (Hanja); Baek, Nam-sun (Revised Romanization); Paek, Namsun (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North Korean politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Kankyō-hokudo Province , former Japanese Empire , now North Korea
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2007