Name   Ahn Kyong-ho (aka Pyong-su) Sex   Male Date of Birth   January 18, 1930 Place of Birth   Kangwon Province Posts Held Vice chairman and chief secretary of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, member of the 10th and 11th Supreme People’s Assemblies Claim to Fame Expert in relations with South Korea Education Kim Il Sung University Profile Ahn Kyong-ho is a frequent participant in inter-Korean talks and well-known in South Korea. With a doctorate in philosophy and notorious for sharp and cynical comments, he has attracted the keen interest of South Korean negotiators. He first took part in inter-Korean talks as part of the North’s entourage in 1973. In the Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, he moved up from section leader in 1982 to chief secretary in 1988. He was appointed the committee’s vice chairman in 1991 and was again named chief secretary in 1999. He eventually earned a spot as cadre of the unification policy bureau of the 1990 Supreme People’s Assembly. In 1988, he represented the North in preparation meetings for inter-Korean parliamentary talks. A year later, he accompanied Korean Workers’ Party Secretary Ho Dam to Moscow for talks with then South Korean Democratic Party Chairman Kim Young-sam. In 1990, Ahn was deputy chief delegate in talks with Seoul on removing concrete walls along the Demilitarized Zone and allowing freer inter-Korean exchanges and visits. He grew more famous in South Korea between 1990 and 1992 as spokesman of the North’s delegation to inter-Korean talks. In 1994, he represented the North in the preparatory meeting for an inter-Korean summit and served as the North’s chairman for the Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification from 1994 to 2005. In 1999, he began to use his real name Pyong-su. In the historic 2000 inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang, he attended the welcoming and farewell dinners and talks between then South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and the head of the North’s legislature Kim Yong-nam.

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