North Korea leader Kim Jong-un's 'closest comrade' dies in car crash Kim Yang-gon, who handled the reclusive country’s ties with South Korea, died on Tuesday, state news agency reports Reuters in Seoul Tuesday 29 December 2015 23.28 GMT A senior North Korean ruling party official and a top aide to leader Kim Jong-un has died in a car crash, the state news agency reported on Wednesday, in the latest event to hit the close circle of deputies of the country’s leader. Kim Yang-gon, who was a secretary of the Workers’ party and the head of its United Front Department, the...