Name   Choe Chil-nam Sex   Male Date of Birth   July 19, 1929 Place of Birth     Posts Held Editor-in-chief of the Korean Workers’ Party’s official daily Rodong Shinmun, member of the 10th and 11th Supreme People’s Assemblies Claim to Fame Journalist Education Kim Il Sung University Profile Veteran journalist Choe Chil-nam worked his way up from reporter to editor-in-chief of the Rodong Shinmun, the official daily of the Korean Workers’ Party. In 1969, he joined the newspaper as a reporter and became deputy managing editor in 1982, first managing editor in 1984 and editor-in-chief in 1998. He was honored as the People’s Reporter in 1983. Choe in 2000 greeted a visiting delegation of South Korean reporters in Pyongyang and took part in a number of events. He also signed a joint inter-Korean press agreement.

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