Kim Jong-il's sister Kim Kyong-hui and Vice President Yang Hyong-sop of the SPA Presidium. On 6 January 2007, at a mass rally in Pyongyang, he gave a speech praising the North Korean government for building nuclear weapons. On 19 October 2012, he met Zandaakhuu Enkhbold, the Mongolian parliamentary speaker, and the two countries "agreed on the future possibilities of bilateral trade and cooperation in the fields of information technology and human exchanges." Choson Sinbo, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan, said Mongolia is interested in exporting coal, copper, gold, and uranium through Rajin Port because it is too "costly to rely on Chinese and Russian railway systems." In October 2017 he retired as a vice chairman of the WPK. He was then replaced as speaker of the SPA at the new legislature's first session in April 2019. References 1930 births Living people People from Nampo People from South Pyongan Government ministers of North Korea Members of the Supreme People's Assembly North Korean expatriates in Germany North Korean expatriates in the Soviet Union Kim Chaek University of Technology Members of the 6th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea Alternate members of the 6th Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Alternate members of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Vice Chairmen of the Workers' Party of Korea and its predecessors