The World - News from Dec. 30, 1986
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Kim Il Sung, who has led Communist North Korea since its division from the south in 1945, was reelected president by the Parliament, the government announced. Li Gunmo, a former machine industry minister and vice premier, was named premier, replacing Kang Song San, who was given an undisclosed portfolio on the Central Committee Secretariat. Pak Nam Gi, a party secretary, was named chief of the National Planning Commission. The 655-member Supreme People’s Assembly also was presented with a new seven-year economic plan, intended to solve the nation’s food, clothing and housing shortages.
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