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# Kang Sun Nam 강순남 

alive 66 years old 

Kang Sun-nam is a North Korean politician and general who was the minister of Defence from 2022 to 2024\. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang%5FSun-nam)

Born

1960, South Pyongan, North Korea

Height

Unknown 

Weight

Unknown 

Military rank

Lieutenant general

Status as of

2026-09-01

Also known as

Kang Sun-nam

Machine-readable: [/api/people/kang-sun-nam](https://savenorthkorea.org/api/people/kang-sun-nam) · [Wikidata Q56682897](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56682897) · Photo: [Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation / Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kang%5FSun-nam%5F2023%5F%28cropped%29.png) (CC BY 4.0)