North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, back third left, offers his condolences in front of the coffin of Kim Yong Nam at an undisclosed location in North Korea on November 4, 2025. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service/AP 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 decades, has died, state media reported Tuesday.

The Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday that Kim Yong Nam, former president of the Presidium of North Korea ’s rubber-stamp Supreme People’s Assembly, died Monday of multiple organ failure at the age of 97.

KCNA said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the bier of Kim Yong Nam on Tuesday to express d

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