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December 18, 2020 13:32 North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Son-gwon, a hawkish former point man on the U.S. and South Korea, has disappeared from public view since August. Ri also seems to have lost his position as a "candidate member" of the Politburo. "We're trying to find out what happened to him," a senior government official here said on Thursday. "He still retains his position as foreign minister." Ri was not seen when leader Kim Jong-un paid his respects to his late father Kim Jong-il during a ceremony marking Kim senior's ninth death anniversary at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in...

North Korea Negotiator Disappears As Kim Prepares for Biden Challenge Newsweek 12/18/2020 David Brennan © KOREA POOL/AFP via Getty Images/Getty North Korean foreign minister Ri Son Gwon is pictured during a meeting with his South Korean counterpart at the border truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas on January 9, 2018. The hawkish North Korean foreign minister has disappeared from public view, amid reports that dictator Kim Jong Un is planning to replace him with a defter negotiator as Pyongyang prepares to face a new American admini...

Report: North Korea's top diplomat 'out' at Pyongyang's politburo By (0) North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Son Gwon (L) was absent this week at a public memorial in Pyongyang on the death anniversary of Kim Jong Il, the father of current leader Kim Jong Un. File Photo by EPA-EFE Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Ri Son Gwon, the North Korean official appointed to Pyongyang's top diplomatic post in January to showcase a tough foreign policy stance, no longer is an alternate member of the politburo of the Korean Workers' Party Central Committee, the Chosun Ilbo reported Friday, citing "key government officials...