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# Sin Hong Chol 신홍철 

ambassador of North Korea to Russia

alive 66 years old 

Ambassador to the Russian Federation since February 2020, playing a crucial operational role in arranging reciprocal leader summits and bilateral military pact negotiations in Moscow. He oversees diplomatic cover for arms transfers and North Korean personnel deployments in Russia. 

Born

1960, Pyongyang, North Korea

Height

Unknown 

Weight

Unknown 

Status as of

2026-09-01

Also known as

Sin Hong-chol, Ambassador Sin

## Positions

1. ?–now ambassador of North Korea to Russia[source](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104538821)

Machine-readable: [/api/people/sin-hong-chol](https://savenorthkorea.org/api/people/sin-hong-chol) · [Wikidata Q104538821](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104538821) · Photo: [Пресс-служба Совета Федерации / Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sin%5FHong%5FChol%5F%28cropped%29.jpg) (CC BY 4.0)