Kang Sok Ju, North Korea Diplomat in Nuclear Talks, Dies at 76
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Kang Sok Ju, who led North Korea’s talks with the United States over the Asian country’s nuclear-weapons program for most of the last quarter century, has died of cancer. He was 76.
Kang, who served as North Korea’s first vice minister for the foreign ministry and vice premier of the cabinet, died of esophageal cancer on May 20, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.