In a country where political purges are frequent, Mr. Kim was a notable exception and served three generations of its dynastic rulers. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul Kim Yong-nam, North Korea’s ...

Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head of state for two decades, has died, state ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un led a state funeral for the country’s longtime ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, who died this week at age 97. Kim Jong Un and other ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Yong Nam, a longtime North Korean ceremonial head of state best known for his trademark propaganda-filled speeches with a deep, booming voice in support of the ruling Kim ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head of state for two ...

North Korea reported that its long-time ceremonial Head of State Kim Yong Nam died at age 97. Kim Yong Nam, former president of the Presidium of North Korea’s rubber-stamp Supreme People’s Assembly, ...