Today, 26 years ago, on September 23, 1999 (August 14, 1999), former North Korean national leader Li Xing Yuan passed away. On September 23, 1999, Li Xing Yuan, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Working Party of the DPRK and honorary deputy chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Congress of the DPRK, died from illness, aged 83. Li Xing Yuan served as Prime Minister of the State Department of the DPRK, Vice President of the State of the DPRK, and was elected honorary deputy chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Congress of the DPRK at the first meeting of the 10th Supreme People's Congress of the DPRK in September 1998.