Choson'gul 류미영 Name Ryu Mi-yong McCune–Reischauer Ryu Miyong | Hancha 柳美英 | |
Revised Romanization Ryu Mi-yeong | ||
Ryu Mi Yong (14 February 1921 – 23 November 2016) was the chairwoman of the North Korean Chondoist Chongu Party. She was a standing committee member of the 10th Supreme People's Assembly. She was known as a defector from South Korea to the North. 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 had received the Order of Kim Il-sung, Order of Kim Jong-il and National Reunification Prize.
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