korean unification studies

Kim Yang Gon (pictured right) is the Director of the United Front Department (UFD), an intelligence agency under the Korean Worker’s Party (KWP) of the DPRK. His role in facilitating dialogue between the two Koreas is rarely acknowledged, but nevertheless highly significant. It is believed that he is a very close confidant of Kim Jong-Il.
Kim Yang [...]

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Kwon Ho-Ung (aka Kwon Min), pictured on the left, was born in 1959 and attended Kim Il-Sung University. In terms of those in powerful positions in North Korea today, he is relatively young.
In 1998 he was Bureau Chief for the Beijing branch of the Committee for Asia-Pacific Peace and in 1999 he became both the Bureau Chief for Europe and Americas in [...]

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Lee Jae-Jeong rose to prominence as an academic and theologian, assuming several related positions in the field of human rights before turning to politics. As the current Minister for Unification, he is a member of the National Security Council, broadly responsible for South Korean engagement with North Korea, and importantly, responsible for the implementation of the [...]

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