Kim Yong-nam
Also known as Kim Yeong-nam
North Korean politician (1928–2025)
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- Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China
· 2020 · cited 21,594x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 21,476x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,959x
- General atomic and molecular electronic structure system
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Kim Yong-nam (Korean: 김영남; February 4, 1928 – November 3, 2025) was a North Korean politician who served as the president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, from 1998 until 2019. Due to holding the office, he was considered the head of state of North Korea; the country's constitution was amended once he left office in 2019 to transfer this position to the President of the State Affairs Commission, Kim Jong Un. Previously, he had served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1998. He was elected a member of the Presidium of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 2010.
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1928 births2025 deathsChairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme People's AssemblyDeaths from colorectal cancer in North KoreaDeaths from multiple organ failureForeign ministers of North KoreaHeads of state of North KoreaMembers of the 5th Political Committee of the Workers' Party of KoreaMembers of the 6th Presidium of the Workers' Party of KoreaMembers of the 6th Secretariat of the Workers' Party of Korea