Ryu Mi-yong (; 14 February 1921 – 23 November 2016) was the chairwoman of the North Korean

Chondoist Chongu Party The Chondoist Chongu Party () is a united front party in North Korea. The party was founded on 8 February 1946 by a group of followers of the Ch'ŏndogyo. The party increasingly came under the influence of the government over time and is now ...

. She was a standing committee member of the 10th

Supreme People's Assembly The Supreme People's Assembly (SPA; ) is the legislature of North Korea. It is ostensibly the highest organ of state power and the only branch of government in North Korea, with all state organs subservient to it under the principle of unified ...

. She was known as a defector from South Korea to the North.

Biography

Ryu was the only daughter born in

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independence Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state, in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the status of ...

activist . She married Choe Deok-sin in 1937 in China. She and her husband Choe Deok-sin defected to the North in 1986. In 2000, she led a delegation of defectors to the South on an officially sanctioned reunion with family they left behind. Ryu died of

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in November 2016. Ryu's second son, , reportedly defected to North Korea in July 2019. Ryu had received the Order of Kim Il Sung, Order of Kim Jong Il and National Reunification Prize. On her funeral committee were: #

Yang Hyong-sop Yang Hyong-sop (; 1 October 1925 – 13 May 2022) was a North Korean politician who served as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly and Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly from 1983 to 1998 (from 1994 it was f ...

# Kim Yong-chol # Kim Yong-dae #

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# Ju Yong-gil # Ri Myong-gil # Kim Jong-sung # Ri Song-won # Pak Myong-chol # Ri Kil-song # Yun Jong-ho

Awards and honors

A frame displaying Ryu's decorations was placed at the foot of her bier during her funeral.

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1921 births 2016 deaths People from Harbin Chondoist Chongu Party politicians Leaders of political parties in North Korea South Korean defectors South Korean emigrants to North Korea 20th-century North Korean women politicians 20th-century North Korean politicians 21st-century North Korean women politicians 21st-century North Korean politicians Recipients of the National Reunification Prize Recipients of the Order of Kim Il Sung Recipients of the Order of Kim Jong Il Deaths from lung cancer Burials at the Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery {{NorthKorea-politician-stub