NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Pak Gil Yon, the new Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

This will be the second time he has served as the Permanent Representative of his country to the United Nations, a position he also held from 1984 to 1996.

Since 1996, Mr. Pak has been Vice Minister in his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a post he also filled from 1983-1984.

Between 1978 and 1983, he was Section Chief, Deputy Director, and Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Earlier he had served as Consul for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Consulate General to both Singapore and Myanmar.

After Mr. Pak graduated from the University of International Relations in 1964, he became an Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

He has received several orders and medals of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including the Kim Il Sung Order.

Mr. Pak is married and has three children.

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