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2009/06/22 19:08 KST
Kim Jong-il's translator named N. Korean envoy to Egypt

  
SEOUL, June 22 (Yonhap) -- The main English language-translator for North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was appointed as the country's ambassador to Egypt, the official Korean Central News Agency said Monday.

Ri Hyok-chol was given the post by a decree of the Presidium of the North's parliament, the Supreme People's Assembly, the report said in a one-sentence dispatch without elaborating.