Kim Yang Gon, the North Korean official who was responsible for handling the country’s fraught relationship with South Korea, has died in an automobile accident, according to CNN.
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North Korean spy chief Kim Yang Gon gets in a auto upon his arrival at the transit office near the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas in Paju, north of Seoul, in this file picture taken November 29, 2007.
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“The Workers’ Party of Korea gives top priority to the issue of improving people’s living standards among millions of other national tasks”, Mr Kim said.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un blamed South Korea Fri. for increased distrust in a New Yr speech in that addressed current heightened tension between the rival countries.
The death earlier this week of Pyongyang’s point man on ties with Seoul had raised some speculation that Mr. Kim might signal a more hawkish inter-Korean policy, but he said he wanted to restart stalled talks.
Kim came to power following the death of his father Kim Jong-il in late 2011.
The tyrant also said he wwants to reunify with South Korea in his New Year’s message. Andrei Lankov explained that it is unlikely that so many car-related deaths could be occurring as genuine “accidents” in North Korea, a country of few cars and tight security for officials.
On Wednesday, North Korean state media said its top negotiator with the South, Kim Yang Gon, had been killed in a road accident. “The hard-liners might have feared Kim’s growing influence”, Ahn said. Choe has always been involved in North Korea’s relations with China, and Won in its relations with South Korea.
In August, North and South Korea agreed to end their military standoff after an exchange of artillery fire that had raised tensions along the border to a critical level.
Kim, who died at the age of 73, was in the charge of the United Front Department and held overall responsibility for dealings with South Korea. His message was instead conveyed in the form of an editorial in North Korea’s major newspapers.
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The speech included typical bombastic rhetoric widely seen by experts as meant to perpetuate a siege mentality among North Koreans to bolster support for the leadership. Some analysts attribute the frequency of such fatal accidents to the poor system of traffic signals in Pyongyang, as well as the tendency of the vehicles carrying high-ranking officials to disregard those signals and to exceed the speed limit.
