December 30, 2015 – Director, North Korea’s United Front Department, Kim Yang Gon is dead. He died on Tuesday in a road accident, North Korean state media outlet the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Wednesday morning.
He will be given state burial on Thursday December 31 at 8 AM.
Kim was director of the United Front Department (UFD) since 2007. The department is responsible for inter-Korean affairs.
As director, he served as Pyongyang’s point-man on relations with the South.
Kim. 73 was born April 24, 1942.
