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Yang Hyong-sop |
Sex |
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Male |
Date of Birth |
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October 1, 1925 |
Place of Birth |
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Hamhung, South Hamkyong Province |
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Posts Held |
Cadre of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers’ Party, chairman
of the Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland and
the Association of (North) Korean Social Scientists, dean of Kim Il
Sung Broadcast University, vice president of the Supreme People’s
Assembly |
Claim to Fame |
Expert in economics and relations with South Korea |
Education |
Kim Il Sung University, Moscow State University |
Profile |
Yang Hyong-sop is a member of the government elite and credited
with setting Kim Il-sung’s “juche (self-reliance) ideology in place.
Having studied economics at Moscow State University, he is also a
key player in inter-Korean relations as the head of the Committee
for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland and the National Front
for Democratic Reunification.
Starting off as a theoretician, he was named education dean of the
People’s Economics University in 1954, principal of the Korean Workers’
Party Central School in 1961 and director of the party’s Marxism-Leninism
think tank in 1962.
Joining the North Korean cabinet as higher education minister in 1967,
he later became a cadre of the party’s Central Committee, a cadre
candidate of the party’s Political Committee and a secretary of the
Central Committee. In 1974, the Political Committee named him cadre.
Between 1983 and 1986, he was chairman of the Standing Committee of
the Supreme People’s Assembly. He became a cadre candidate in the
Central Committee’s political bureau in 1993 and vice chairman of
the party’s Standing Committee five years later.
During the 2000 inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang, Yang accompanied
Supreme People’s Assembly President Kim Yong-nam in talks with South
Korea. |
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