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DP's Park Jie-won breaks ranks to back Hormuz deployment

A Democratic Party lawmaker says a noncombat deployment may be unavoidable to protect Korean ships and manage ties with Washington.

2026.9.7

The late former Presidium President of the Supreme People’s Assembly Kim Yong-nam, who died of cancer on Nov. 3 after serving as the face of North Korean diplomacy across three generations of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un [KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY]

‘He was from Daegu’: DP lawmaker muses about relationship with late North Korean statesman

A claim has surfaced that late Kim Yong-nam, the former president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea, was an alumnus of Kyeongbuk High School in Daegu.

2025.11.5

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Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly Chairman Kim Yong-nam, right, greets now-Democratic Party Rep. Park Jie-won before a meeting with the special delegation from the South at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on Sept. 18, 2018. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

DP lawmaker asks to be sent as envoy to North parliamentary leader's funeral

Following the death of Kim Yong-nam, the former chairman of North Korea's Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, Democratic Party Rep. Park Jie-won asked the South Korean government to send him as a special envoy to offer condolences.

2025.11.4

Democratic Party Rep. Park Jie-won during a plenary session on Feb. 13 [JEON MIN-GYU]

Rep. Park Jie-won says Kim Jong-un ignored his greeting at China’s Victory Day parade

Rep. Park Jie-won of the Democratic Party said he attempted to greet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at China’s Victory Day military parade earlier this week but was snubbed.

2025.9.6

Attorney Kim Ye-won, left, and Democratic Party Rep. Park Jie-won, right, are seen during the National Assembly’s Legislation and Judiciary Committee hearing at the National Assembly in Yeouido in western Seoul on July 9. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

'Entirely my fault': Attorney Kim Ye-won apologizes for remark about DP rep's disability

Attorney Kim Ye-won issued a public apology on Thursday for referencing Democratic Party Rep. Park Jie-won’s disability, saying the mistake was “entirely my fault.”

2025.7.11

Democratic Party (DP) Rep. Park Jie-won [JEON MIN-GYU]

DP politician says South Korea must recognize North Korea as 'nuclear power'

Rep. Park Jie-won proposed recognizing North Korea as a nuclear state, prompting criticism from the People Power Party. The Democratic Party distanced itself from Park, calling his views personal.

2025.2.21

[Editorial] Does Moon really want to be forgotten?

The weird internal battle owes much to the former president himself.

2023.3.20

Park Jie-won, former director of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), speaks to reporters at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho District, southern Seoul, on Dec. 14. [KIM KYUNG-ROK]

Former NIS chief, ex-defense minister indicted for deleting evidence in fisheries case

Prosecutors indicted without detention former National Intelligence Service (NIS) chief Park Ji-won, former Defense Minister Suh Wook and a former NIS staffer for allegedly deleting evidence related to the murder of a South Korean fisheries official.

2022.12.29

Former spy chief sticks to his story about murder at sea

Former spy chief Park Jie-won said Wednesday he did not receive instructions to delete documents related to the 2020 murder at sea of a South Korean fisheries official from former President Moon Jae-in or his top security adviser Suh Hoon.

2022.12.14

Former Blue House Chief of Staff Noh Young-min, right, speaks in a press conference on the death of a fisheries official in 2020 at the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Moon's former chief of staff grilled about murder at sea

Prosecutors grilled Noh Young-min, a former presidential chief of staff, in their investigation into the murder at sea of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korean soldiers in 2020.

2022.12.13