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Kim Yong Sun Dies

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Sun, member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and secretary of the C.C., the WPK, died on October 26, Juche 92 (2003) at the age of 69. He was under treatment at a hospital for a long time due to a traffic accident that occurred on June 16. The C.C., the WPK and the Presidium of the DPRK SPA issued an obituary of Kim Yong Sun on Oct. 26.
    According to the obituary, he was born in a poor peasant's family in the period of the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists.
    After the country's liberation he grew up under the care of the Party and has since devotedly worked for socialist construction and the country's reunification.
    He courageously fought for the victory of the Fatherland Liberation War. Since his graduation from a university after the ceasefire he has held various posts at the C.C., the WPK.
    He strove hard to raise the international authority of the Party and strengthen the international solidarity with our revolution.
    He enthusiastically worked to open a landmark phase of the country's reunification under the banner of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
    He worked for years as a member of the leading body of the Party Central Committee and a deputy to the SPA and was active as vice-chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland and chairman of the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee.
    He was awarded "Kim Il Sung Order", the highest order of the Republic, and many other state citations for his feats performed for the country and the revolution.
    Kim Yong Sun, firmly armed with the Juche idea of our Party, remained loyal to the Songun leadership of the Party and dedicated his all to the cause of national reunification till the last moments of his life.