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Funeral for N. Korea's senior official

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo taken Dec. 16, 2013, in Pyongyang, North Korea, shows the gravestone of Kim Kuk Thae, a member of the Political Bureau of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, and a wreath of flowers (L front) sent from the country's leader Kim Jong Un. The state funeral for Kim Kuk Thae was held the same day.

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Funeral for N. Korea's senior official

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A state funeral is held in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 16, 2013, for Kim Kuk Thae, a member of the Political Bureau of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.

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China-N Korea 'strategic dialogue'

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Choe Thae Bok, a secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, holds talks with Li Yuanchao (not shown in the photo), head of the Chinese Communist Party's Organization Department, in Pyongyang on June 10, 2011.

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China-N Korea 'strategic dialogue'

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Li Yuanchao, head of the Chinese Communist Party's Organization Department, holds talks with Choe Thae Bok (not shown in the photo), a secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang on June 10, 2011.

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China-N Korea 'strategic dialogue'

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Li Yuanchao (R), head of the Chinese Communist Party's Organization Department, is greeted by Choe Thae Bok (L), a secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, at Pyongyang International Airport on June 10, 2011. The two sides held a ''strategic dialogue'' later in the day in Pyongyang to discuss bilateral relations and other issues of mutual concern, the North's official Korean Central News Agency reported the same day.

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N. Korea's Choe departs from China

BEIJING, China - Senior North Korean official Choe Thae Bok prepares to depart from Beijing airport on Dec. 4, 2010. Choe, a secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, returned home after making the first visit by a North Korean official to China since his country's Nov. 23 artillery attack on South Korea.

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N. Korean official in China

BEIJING, China - Choe Thae Bok (C), an aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, arrives at Beijing airport on Nov. 30, 2010. The arrival of Choe, a secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea's Central Committee, marks the first visit by a senior North Korean official to China since Pyongyang's Nov. 23 deadly shelling of a South Korean island near the contested western sea border.

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N. Korean official in China

BEIJING, China - Kim Yong Il (C), director of the Workers' Party of Korea's International Department, arrives at Beijing airport on Nov. 30, 2010. He traveled with Choe Thae Bok, a secretary of the party's Central Committee and an aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

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N. Korean official in China

BEIJING, China - Choe Thae Bok (C), an aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, arrives at Beijing airport on Nov. 30, 2010. The arrival of Choe, a secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea's Central Committee, marks the first visit by a senior North Korean official to China since Pyongyang's Nov. 23 deadly shelling of a South Korean island near the contested western sea border.

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U.S. envoy arrives in N. Korea for denuclearization talks

PYONGYANG, North Korea - On his arrival at Pyongyang International Airport on Dec. 8, 2009, chief U.S. policymaker on North Korea Stephen Bosworth (L) shakes hands with Jong Thae Yang, deputy head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's U.S. affairs department. Bosworth is in the North Korean capital for a three-day visit aimed at persuading North Korea to return to the stalled six-party denuclearization talks.

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U.S. envoy arrives in N. Korea for denuclearization talks

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Jong Thae Yang, deputy head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's U.S. affairs department, (C) accompanies chief U.S. policymaker on North Korea Stephen Bosworth (L) on the U.S. official's arrival to Pyongyang International Airport on Dec. 8, 2009. Bosworth is in the North Korean capital for a three-day visit aimed at persuading North Korea to return to the stalled six-party denuclearization talks.

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Key N. Korea official leaves China

BEIJING, China - Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, is photographed at Beijing airport on Oct. 31, 2009, before returning to North Korea. Choe met Chinese President Hu Jintao and other key officials during his five-day trip.

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China Pres. Hu meets with N. Korea official Choe

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) meets with Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 28, 2009.

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China Pres. Hu meets with N. Korea official Choe

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shakes hands with Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 28, 2009.

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N. Korean diplomat Jong Thae Yang arrives in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Jong Thae Yang, a key North Korean delegate to the six-nation talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programs, arrives at Beijing airport on Feb. 17. The deputy chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's department of U.S. affairs is believed to be heading for Moscow to take part in a Feb. 19-20 session of the multilateral framework's working group on the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Mechanism. The session will be closely watched as it will be the first round of negotiations involving the United States and North Korea since U.S. President Barack Obama assumed office.

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Diplomats agree trust among 6 nations key to N.E. Asia security

BEIJING, China - Jong Thae Yang, deputy director general of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's department of U.S. affairs, attends the first session of the regional peace and security working group at the Russian Embassy in Beijing on March 16. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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6-way working group on economic aid holds inaugural meeting

BEIJING, China - Jong Thae Yang, deputy director general of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's department of U.S. affairs, is surrounded by reporters at Beijing's international airport on March 15 after arriving there for a series of working-group meetings of the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs.

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N. Korean official urges new Japan leader to implement declaration

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Jong Thae Hwa, a former North Korean top negotiator in bilateral normalization talks with Japan, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Pyongyang. Jong said that North Korea urges the successor to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to implement a 2002 bilateral declaration committing the countries to work toward normalizing ties.

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Japan, N. Korea discuss nuke issue on 4th day of talks

BEIJING, China - North Korea's delegation, headed by Jong Thae Yang (C), deputy chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's U.S. affairs department, attend the fourth day of bilateral talks with Japan at a Beijing hotel Feb. 7.

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Next 6-way talks to be held by end of June: N. Korean official

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Jong Thae Yang, director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's division for U.S. affairs, speaks to a group of Japanese reporters at a hotel in Pyongyang on April 23. Jong said he believes the next round of six-party talks to discuss the country's nuclear development program will take place as planned by the end of June.

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N. Korea rules out talks if Japan sticks only to abductions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Jong Thae Hwa, North Korean ambassador in charge of normalization talks with Japan, speaks to a group of Japanese reporters in Pyongyang on April 22. Jong ruled out talks on bilateral issues if Japan sticks only to the problem of Japanese abducted by the North.

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(1)Japan, N. Korea end talks in Kuala Lumpur

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Jong Thae Hwa, chief North Korean negotiator at the normalization talks with Japan, leaves a conference room at a Kuala Lumpur hotel Oct. 30 after winding up two days of talks.

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(2)Abduction still top issue as Japan-N. Korea talks go on

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Chief Japanese delegate Katsunari Suzuki (L) and his North Korean counterpart Jong Thae Hwa shake hands as they meet at a Kuala Lumpur hotel for their second day of talks on normalization of relations on Oct. 30.

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(4)Abduction still top issue as Japan-N. Korea talks go on

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Chief North Korean delegate Jong Thae Hwa (2nd from R) at the second and final day of talks on normalization of talks with Japan at a Kuala Lumpur hotel on Oct. 30.

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(2)Japan, N. Korea resume normalization talks

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Japan's chief delegate Katsunari Suzuki (3rd from R) speaks as his North Korean counterpart Jong Thae Hwa listens. The two countries resume talks on normalization of relations at the Japanese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 29.

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(4)Japan, N. Korea resume normalization talks

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa, North Korea's chief delegate to the Japan-North Korea normalization talks that resumed in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 29.

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(1)Japan, N. Korea resume normalization talks

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Japan's chief delegate Katsunari Suzuki (R) and his North Korean counterpart Jong Thae Hwa shake hands at the start of talks on normalization of relations at the Japanese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 29.

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Japan, N. Korea hold 2nd day of normalization talks

BEIJING, China - Japanese and North Korean negotiators hold a second day of talks on establishing diplomatic relations at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing on Oct. 31. Fourth from left on the left side is Ambassador Kojiro Takano, head of the Japanese delegation, and sitting opposite him is North Korea's top negotiator, Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa.

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Japan, N. Korea end 1st session of normalization talks

BEIJING, China - Japanese Ambassador Kojiro Takano (L) and North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa leave the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Oct. 30 after ending the first session of a new round of talks on normalizing diplomatic relations. Japanese and North Korean negotiators met for three hours in the morning and will resume talks later in the day after a break for lunch.

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Japan, N. Korea begin normalization talks

BEIJING, China - Japan and North Korea began a new round of talks on establishing diplomatic ties in Beijing on Oct. 30. Japan is represented by a nine-member delegation headed by Ambassador Kojiro Takano (2nd from R) and North Korea by a seven-member delegation headed by Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (L).

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Japan, N. Korea to hold normalization talks in Beijing

BEIJING, China - North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (L) answers questions from Japanese reporters at Beijing's airport on Oct. 28 ahead of talks with Japanese officials on establishing diplomatic ties between the two countries on Oct. 30-31 in the Chinese capital. Japan's negotiating team will be headed by Ambassador Kojiro Takano.

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Japan, N. Korea end talks on establishing ties

KISARAZU, Japan - North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (R), who leads his country's delegation in negotiations on establishing bilateral ties with Japan, proposes a toast with Ambassador Kojiro Takano, head of the Japanese side, at a party hosted by North Korea after ending the final day of talks at a hotel in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, on Aug. 24.

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Japan, N. Korea continue talks past schedule

KISARAZU, Japan - Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (L), chief of the North Korean delegation, and Ambassador Kojiro Takano, head of the Japanese team, walk toward the conference room at a local hotel Aug. 24 as they resume talks on normalization of bilateral relations.

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Japan, N. Korea hold final day of talks to establish ties

KISARAZU, Japan - North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (L), who leads the country's delegation to negotiations on establishing bilateral ties with Japan, shakes hands with Ambassador Kojiro Takano, head of the Japanese side, prior to their final day of talks at a hotel in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture on Aug. 24.

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Japanese, N. Korean ambassadors share toast at dinner

TOKYO, Japan - North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (R), the head of a delegation to normalization talks with Japan, and Japanese Ambassador Kojiro Takano share a toast at a banquet to welcome the North Koreans at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 22. Japanese and North Korean negotiators kicked off their second round of talks the same day on establishing diplomatic ties.

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N. Korean delegation visits Chongryun headquarters

TOKYO, Japan - So Man Sul (2nd from R), first deputy chairman of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryun), welcomes members of a visiting North Korean delegation to Chongryun's headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 23. The delegation, headed by North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (2nd from L), is negotiating the establishment of diplomatic ties with Japan. About 300 Chongryun members waved the North Korean flag and cheered as the guests entered the compound in Chiyoda Ward.

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N. Korea's Jong meets Japanese politicians

TOKYO, Japan - North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (R), who heads a delegation for talks with Japan, meets and shakes hands with Japanese politicians at the Diet building in Tokyo on Aug. 22. From left are Hiromu Nonaka, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, Masaaki Nakayama, head of the Japanese parliamentarian group for friendship with North Korea, and former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. Japanese and North Korean negotiators kicked off their second round of talks the same day on establishing diplomatic ties.

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N. Korean negotiators arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - A North Korean delegation led by Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (R) arrived in Japan on Aug. 21 for a second round of negotiations on establishing diplomatic ties. The delegation was welcomed at Narita airport by Kojiro Takano (L), ambassador in charge of normalization talks, who will head the Japanese team. The two sides will hold two plenary negotiations -- on Aug. 22 in Tokyo and on Aug. 24 in Kisarazu in the adjacent prefecture of Chiba.

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Japan, N. Korea kick off talks on diplomatic ties

TOKYO, Japan - Kojiro Takano (L), Japan's chief envoy for negotiations with North Korea on establishing diplomatic ties, and Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa, who leads the North Korean delegation, shake hands at the outset of the talks in Tokyo on Aug. 22. On Aug. 24, the two sides will move to Kisarazu in neighboring Chiba Prefecture for the second day of talks.

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N. Korean ambassador meets Kono

TOKYO, Japan - North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa, who leads his country's delegation for negotiations with Japan on establishing diplomatic ties, pays a courtesy call on Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono in Tokyo on Aug. 22. The delegations of both countries kicked off their postponed second round of talks later in the day in Tokyo, which will be followed by a second day of talks on Aug. 24 in Kisarazu in neighboring Chiba Prefecture.

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N. Korean envoy meets the press

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa speaks at a news conference at the end of the first round of talks on normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and North Korea on Aprul 7. He claimed Japan ''conveyed its intention to apologize (to Pyongyang) for the past and to compensate in line with the apology.''

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Japan, N. Korea delegates have a breather

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kojiro Takano (L), chief Japanese delegate to Japan-North Korea diplomatic talks, and his North Korean counterpart Jong Thae Hwa (R) pose for pictures during a one-day sightseeing excursion to Mt. Myohyang, northeast of Pyongyang, on April 6.

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Japan, N. Korea agree on normalization efforts

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kojiro Takano (R), who leads the Japanese delegation at talks with North Korea on normalizing diplomatic ties, and Jong Thae Hwa, who heads the North Korean side at the talks, pose for photographers at a welcome banquet for the Japanese officials in Pyongyang on April 4. Senior-level negotiations are being held for the first time since such talks collapsed in 1992.

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N. Korean diplomat Jong Thae Yang arrives in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Jong Thae Yang, a key North Korean delegate to the six-nation talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programs, arrives at Beijing airport on Feb. 17. The deputy chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's department of U.S. affairs is believed to be heading for Moscow to take part in a Feb. 19-20 session of the multilateral framework's working group on the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Mechanism. The session will be closely watched as it will be the first round of negotiations involving the United States and North Korea since U.S. President Barack Obama assumed office. (Kyodo)

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(1)Japan, N. Korea end talks in Kuala Lumpur

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Jong Thae Hwa, chief North Korean negotiator at the normalization talks with Japan, leaves a conference room at a Kuala Lumpur hotel Oct. 30 after winding up two days of talks. (Kyodo)

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(4)Abduction still top issue as Japan-N. Korea talks go on

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Chief North Korean delegate Jong Thae Hwa (2nd from R) at the second and final day of talks on normalization of talks with Japan at a Kuala Lumpur hotel on Oct. 30. (Kyodo)

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Japan, N. Korea agree on normalization efforts

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kojiro Takano (R), who leads the Japanese delegation at talks with North Korea on normalizing diplomatic ties, and Jong Thae Hwa, who heads the North Korean side at the talks, pose for photographers at a welcome banquet for the Japanese officials in Pyongyang on April 4. Senior-level negotiations are being held for the first time since such talks collapsed in 1992.

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(4)Japan, N. Korea resume normalization talks

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa, North Korea's chief delegate to the Japan-North Korea normalization talks that resumed in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 29. (Kyodo)

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(2)Japan, N. Korea resume normalization talks

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Japan's chief delegate Katsunari Suzuki (3rd from R) speaks as his North Korean counterpart Jong Thae Hwa listens. The two countries resume talks on normalization of relations at the Japanese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 29. (Kyodo)

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N. Korean negotiators arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - A North Korean delegation led by Ambassador Jong Thae Hwa (R) arrived in Japan on Aug. 21 for a second round of negotiations on establishing diplomatic ties. The delegation was welcomed at Narita airport by Kojiro Takano (L), ambassador in charge of normalization talks, who will head the Japanese team. The two sides will hold two plenary negotiations -- on Aug. 22 in Tokyo and on Aug. 24 in Kisarazu in the adjacent prefecture of Chiba.