The World - News from Dec. 30, 1986

Kim Il Sung, who has led Communist North Korea since its division from the south in 1945, was reelected president by the Parliament, the government announced. Li Gunmo, a former machine industry minister and vice premier, was named premier, replacing Kang Song San, who was given an undisclosed portfolio on the Central Committee Secretariat. Pak Nam Gi, a party secretary, was named chief of the National Planning Commission. The 655-member Supreme People’s Assembly also was presented with a new seven-year economic plan, intended to solve the nation’s food, clothing and housing shortages.