Yang Hyeong-seop, former vice chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, died on the 14th at the age of 96.
According to the Korean Central News Agency on the 15th, "Dear Comrade Kim Jong-un, on the occasion of the passing of Comrade Yang Hyeong-seop, a former vice chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, who was awarded the Orders of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, visited the deceased on May 14 and expressed his deep condolences. was," it was reported.
Choe Ryong-hae, Cho Yong-won, Kim Duk-hoon, Park Jeong-cheon, and Ri Byung-chol, who were members of the Politburo Standing Committee, and Ri Il-hwan, secretary of the Party Central Committee, paid their condolences.
Comrade Kim Jong-un meditated in memory of Comrade Yang Hyeong-seop, who devoted all of his wisdom and energy for the strengthening and development of our people's government and socialist system, for the prosperity of the country and for the happiness of the people.
Comrade Kim Jong-un looked back on the eternity of Comrade Yang Hyeong-seop, carrying a grievous loss of a valuable revolutionary comrade who has been faithful to the party and revolution and the country and people all his life with high party and revolutionary principle. "He expressed his deep condolences to the family of the deceased and warmly comforted them," he emphasized.
The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly said in an obituary, "He unfortunately passed away on the 13th at 22:40 at the age of 96 due to a cerebral infarction."
"Comrade, while serving as the vice chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly for a long time, faithfully upholding the ideas and leadership of the great general, solidifying the one-hearted unity of the party and the revolutionary ranks in every way, and strengthening the legal foundation for the continuous consolidation and development of the most superior Korean-style socialism," he said. He made an outstanding contribution to the project and actively contributed to raising the external authority of the republic through skillful diplomatic activities."
Former Vice-Chairman Yang is a relative married to Kim Shin-suk, a cousin of President Kim Il-sung, and, together with Hwang Jang-yeop, led the systematization of the Juche idea.
In the mid-1980s, he was also involved in the field of South Korea, including serving as the vice chairman of the Committee for Peace and Reunification of the Fatherland, and served as the permanent chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam during the inter-Korean summit held in Pyongyang in June 2000, and also attended a meeting with President Kim Dae-jung.
In particular, in an interview with APTN in Pyongyang on October 8, 2010, he said, "We have the honor of serving comrade Kim Jong-un, a young leader," and he is the first North Korean high-level official to officially confirm the 'Kim Jong-un succession theory'.
Even after Chairman Kim Jong-un took office, he has been steadily appearing in public, and in January of last year, he appeared at the parade commemorating the 8th Party Congress and a grand performance, but has not appeared in the state media since then.
(Photo=Pyongyang Chosun Central News Agency, Yonhap News)