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Pak Nam-seon
Pak Nam-seon was the North Korean foreign minister from 1998 until his death in 2007.
PAK NAM-SEON (1929–2007). Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) foreign minister from 1998 until his death in January 2007. He first came to notice as a delegate to the North–South talks in the 1970s. He was listed as the vice chairman of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries in 1972 and as deputy head of the General Federation of Trade Unions in 1973, but became ambassador to Poland that same year. He left Poland in 1979, reappearing as deputy head of the Journalists’ Union in 1985. From 1990 to 1998, he was secretary of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland. While foreign minister, he apparently suffered from kidney problems and was often absent. He had no discernible effect on foreign policy but was a pleasant figurehead.
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