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Ri Su-yong (; born 15 June 1940), also known as Ri Chol, is a North Korean diplomat, currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Korea. Ri has served as a diplomat to Switzerland, and has represented North Korea at the United Nations mission in Geneva. He is the third North Korean foreign minister to speak before the United Nations General Assembly. ==Career== Ri was the North Korean representative to the United Nations mission in Geneva in the 1980s.〔 Ri was the North Korean ambassador to Switzerland in the 1990s.〔 Before holding these posts he had worked in African embassies of North Korea. Ri was the vice-director of the Organization and Guidance Department in 2002. Ri is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Korea. He was appointed to the post in the first session of the 13th Supreme People's Assembly in 2014, replacing Pak Ui-chun. Outside observers hailed the appointment as the most important in the cabinet, suggesting his close relationship with Kim Jong-un and Kim Yo-jong played part.〔 It was also suggested that this may indicate change in the traditionally weak role of the Foreign Minister in North Korea. In 2014, Ri attended the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the time when the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was being discussed. Ri was the first North Korean foreign minister to attend the UNGA in 15 years〔 (and only the third ever, since Kim Yong-nam in 1992 and Paek Nam-sun in 1999), signifying that North Korea took the allegations made by the COI very seriously. Ri attended the UNGA again in 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary session of the UNGA. In his statement to the assembly, described as unsurprising, Ri called for the United States to work toward a peace treaty in Korea in exchange for "dramatic improvement" in security of the Korean peninsula. In April 2014, Ri was also the first North Korean foreign minister to visit India in at least 25 years. He met with Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj to discuss North Korean nuclear program and regional security issues. Ri also met with Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari. It is also possible that Ri sought for Indian economic aid, or increased trade. India had given 1 million U.S. dollars as emergency aid through World Food Program in 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ri Su-yong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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