Name   Ryo Won-gu Sex   Female Date of Birth   1928 Place of Birth   Seoul Posts Held Vice chairman of the Supreme People’s Assembly and the North Korean delegation to the Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification, co-chairman of the National Front for Democratic Reunification, member of the 10th and 11th Supreme People’s Assemblies Claim to Fame Expert in relations with South Korea Education Moscow State University Profile Ryo Won-gu is a daughter of Ryo Un-hyong, who helped form the North Korean government after liberation from Japanese colonial rule. Going to the North in 1946, she was named in 1989 deputy chief of the General Bureau of Compatriots and a staff at Kim Chaek University of Technology. Stints as vice chairman of the Education Committee and vice education minister followed. From 1998, she began her involvement in inter-Korean relations as the North’s vice chairwoman of the Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification and head of the National Front for Democratic Reunification. In the 2000 inter-Korean summit, she attended the welcoming and farewell dinners for then South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and events at the airport. During the summit, she held talks with Kim’s wife Lee Hee-ho and attended inter-Korean talks of women leaders. Also in 2000, she attended a convention where the North’s government, Korean Workers’ Party and organizations reconfirmed their commitment to implement the inter-Korean joint statement concluded in the summit.

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