# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kang-sun-nam
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:40:00.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kang-sun-nam"
name: "Kang Sun-nam"
slug: "kang-sun-nam"
description: "Kang Sun-nam (Korean: 강순남) is a North Korean politician and general who was the minister of Defence from 2022 to 2024. He is also a member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and a member of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea"
tagline: "North Korean general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kang_Sun-nam_2023_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           42.82
  momentum:             0.4918032786885246
  historical:           5.027792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Sun-nam"
    title: "Kang Sun-nam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B7%E7%B4%94%E7%94%B7"
    title: "強純男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%95%EC%88%9C%EB%82%A8"
    title: "강순남"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Sun-nam"
    title: "Kang Sun-nam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%BD_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%BC"
    title: "Кан Сун Нам"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56682897"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump