{"id":"kang-myong-do","name_en":"Kang Myong-do","name_ko":"강명도","aliases":["Kang Myong-do"],"wikidata":"Q16177323","wikipedia":null,"image":{"src":"/img/people/kang-myong-do.jpg","credit":"채널A 캔버스 / Wikimedia Commons","license":"CC BY 3.0","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%EA%B9%80%EB%AA%85%EB%8F%84_%EA%B5%90%EC%88%98.jpg"},"born":{"date":"1958-12-04","place":"Pyongyang, North Korea"},"died":null,"status":{"value":"defected","as_of":"1994-05-01","source_url":null},"gender":"male","rank":null,"roles":[],"family":[],"health":[],"physical":{"height_cm":null,"weight_kg":null},"sanctions":[],"summary":"Son-in-law of former North Korean Premier Kang Song San, who defected to South Korea via China in May 1994. In a historic Seoul press conference, he provided the international community with early confirmation that North Korea had successfully developed nuclear weapons.","summary_source":"research","notable":[],"tags":["defector","economy"],"family_resolved":[]}