For the first time, the DPRK was the Woman. At the post of head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, Choi Song HE, who previously was the deputy minister of foreign affairs and acted as the chief negotiator of Pyongyan on nuclear issues, was appointed to the post of head of nuclear issues, reported on Saturday, June 11, the state news agency TST.
In this post, she replaced the former army officer Lee Song Gwon. Even as deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 57-year-old Choi, Song Hey was considered one of the few women in the ruling elite of North Korea. She, among other things, played an important role at the meetings of the DPRK head Kim Jong -un with the then US President Donald Trump in 2018 and 2019. In addition, in April 2019, she accompanied Kim Jong-un in his first state visit to Russia.