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    Kim Yong-chol: the ultimate North Korean regime insider

    The man sent to New York for talks with Mike Pompeo ahead of the June summit is a former DMZ border guard and spy
    by Julian Borger in Washington May 30, 2018 2 minutes
    Kim Yong-chol has served three generations of the Kim dynasty. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AFP/Getty Images

    Kim Yong-chol, the septuagenarian former spy chief due to arrive in New York on Wednesday for talks with Mike Pompeo, is the ultimate North Korean regime insider.

    Kim has been a border guard in the Korean demilitarised zone, a liaison officer with the United Nations, and a member of the team who held breakthrough negotiations with the South Koreans in the early 1990s. Over the past decade

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