The Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar has agreed to the appointment of Mr Kim Chong IL as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, with residence in Yangon.

Mr Kim Chong IL was born on 9 November 1963. He graduated from the University of International Relations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1984 and from the National University of Modern Languages in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, in 1987. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an officer in the Asia Department in 1987 and served in various capacities at headquarters and abroad.

From 1991 to 1996, he served as a Third Secretary at the Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. From 1996 to 2001, he was an officer in the Department responsible for Southeast, Southwest and Oceania countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He then served as a First Secretary at the Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from 2001 to 2004, after which he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the same department, working there until 2011.

From 2011 to 2014, Mr Kim Chong IL served as a national staff member at the UNICEF office in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. He then served as a Counsellor at the Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from 2014 to 2018. From 2018 to 2020, he worked as a Senior Officer in the Policy Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 2020 to 2022, he served as a Senior Officer in the Asia Department II, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2022, he has been serving as Deputy Director-General of Asia Department II in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mr Kim Chong IL is married and has two children.

MNA

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