NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
19960717 (Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)Kim Hyong U, the new Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
Mr. Kim has been Deputy Department Head of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the Institute of International Affairs since 1988.
He began his service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1960, and served as the Vice-Minister twice -- from 1979 to 1983 and from 1987 to 1988. From 1983 to 1987, he served concurrently as Ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations Office at Geneva. As Special Envoy of the President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, he visited more than 80 countries.
Mr. Kim graduated from the Law Faculty of the Kim Il Sung University, Pyongyang, in 1960. Born on 1 March 1936 in Pyongyang, he is married and has two children.
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