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Kyodo News Plus
March 28, 2018
The visitor might have been North Korea's ceremonial leader Kim Yong Nam or Choe Ryong Hae, the nation's de facto No. 2 figure who is regarded as Kim's right-hand man, sources close to the matter told Kyodo News. State-run media of both China and North Korea have so far not reported on a visit by aÃâà...
Reuters TV
March 28, 2018
One source in China's leadership told Reuters it might not be Kim Jong-Un making but his sister, Kim Yo-Jong. And South Korean media are reporting she's in Beijing with Kim Yong-Nam, the North's ceremonial leader. The same pair made a visit to South Korea earlier this year during the Winter Olympics.
The Diplomat
March 27, 2018
If Kim himself hasn't come to Beijing, the other possibility is that the train and the accompanying large delegation seen in video footage from Beijing carried Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong-un's younger sister, and Kim Yong-nam, North Korea's ceremonial head of state. Kim Yo-jong and Kim Yong-nam haveÃâà...
Kyodo News Plus
March 21, 2018
9 this year, Abe told the North's ceremonial leader Kim Yong Nam in a brief meeting in Pyeongchang, South Korea, that there is no change in Japan's stance of seeking normalization of diplomatic ties by resolving the nuclear and missile development and the abduction issues based on the PyongyangÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 20, 2018
The opening ceremony on February 9 was attended by North Korea's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly President Kim Yong Nam as well as Kim Jong Un's younger sister Kim Yo Jong, who delivered an invitation to Moon to visit Pyongyang for a third inter-Korean summit. Later, South KoreanÃâà...
Korea Times
March 16, 2018
Kang Sue-jin, a world-renowned former ballerina and director of the Korean National Ballet, might take charge of the art team after Kim Yong-nam, North Korea's nominal head of state, suggested at a luncheon organized by Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon last month that Kang should do so. Meanwhile, WTÃâà...
Council on Foreign Relations
March 2, 2018
... opening ceremony, during which Moon hosted International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, and a North Korean delegation that included ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam and Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo-jung.
Kyodo News Plus
February 26, 2018
In a hint at Japan's new stance, Abe shook hands and briefly exchanged words with North Korea's ceremonial leader Kim Yong Nam at a reception dinner ahead of the Winter Olympics. "Japan believes it is important to directly communicate our thoughts to North Korea," Chief Cabinet Secretary YoshihideÃâà...
Daily NK
February 25, 2018
According to the report in the Washington Post, the US first agreed to the meeting in early February, and it was only after this that North Korea officially announced the visit to South Korea of Kim Jo Yong and Kim Yong Nam. The original agreement was for a meeting between the US Vice President and theÃâà...
The Independent
February 24, 2018
... musician who fled to South Korea in 2008, said dancers and singers were forced to strip and provide sexual services at parties held every day for the country's Central Politburo. Members of the decision-making committee include North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the President Kim Yong-nam.
The Japan Times
February 23, 2018
Moon met Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and Kim Yong Nam, North Korea's nominal head of state, a day after the opening ceremony and urged North Korea to do more to engage in a dialogue with the United States. For now, there are no signs that Ivanka Trump will meet KimÃâà...
South China Morning Post
February 20, 2018
But on Saturday February 10, less than two hours before Pence and his team were set to meet with Kim Yo-jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and Kim Yong-nam, the regime's nominal head of state, the North Koreans pulled out of the scheduled meeting, according to Pence'sÃâà...
The Japan Times
February 17, 2018
The cheering squad had good reason for its energy — Kim Yo Jong and North Korea's formal president, Kim Yong Nam, not to mention U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, were all watching from the VIP reviewing booth directly before them.
Newsweek
February 15, 2018
Kim Yo Jong (top right), sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, sits alongside Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of North Korean Parliament, and behind U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, as she watches the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium,Ãâà...
The Straits Times
February 14, 2018
TOKYO • Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he had asked North Korea's ceremonial leader, Mr Kim Yong Nam, to return all Japanese nationals believed to have been abducted by North Korean agents, reported Japan's Kyodo news agency. Mr Abe shook hands and spoke briefly with 90-year-old Mr KimÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
February 9, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence, second from bottom right, sits between second lady Karen Pence, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Feb. 9, 2018. Seated behind Pence are Kim Yong Nam, third from top right,Ãâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 5, 2018
North Korea is to send its highest ranking official ever to the South, amid an ongoing thaw in relations over the Winter Olympic Games. Kim Yong-nam, the North's ceremonial head of state, will arrive in South Korea this Friday as the head of a 22-member high level delegation representing Pyongyang.
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of North Korean Parliament, and Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, sit behind US Vice President Mike Pence at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Thomson Reuters. Sanders said that unless the North demonstrated that they were serious aboutÃâà...
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