# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kang-chol-hwan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:40:27.814Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kang-chol-hwan"
name: "Kang Chol-hwan"
slug: "kang-chol-hwan"
description: "Kang Chol-hwan is a North Korean defector, author, and the founder and president of the North Korea Strategy Center."
tagline: "Defector from North Korea"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kang_Chol-hwan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1968-09-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.63593333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://blog.chosun.com/blog.screen?userId=nkch"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كانج تشول هوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kang Chol-hwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Chol-hwan"
    title: "Kang Chol-hwan"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Chol-hwan"
    title: "Kang Chol-hwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Chol-Hwan"
    title: "Kang Chol-Hwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Chol-hwan"
    title: "Kang Chol-hwan"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Chol-hwan"
    title: "Kang Chol-hwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A7%9C%E5%93%B2%E7%85%A5"
    title: "姜哲煥"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Chol-hwan"
    title: "Kang Chol-hwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кан Чхольхван"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kang_Chol-hwan"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump