Valery Sukhinin

Valery Sukhinin
Валерий Сухинин
Russian Ambassador to North Korea
In office
20 December 2006  5 April 2012
PresidentVladimir Putin
Preceded byAndrei Karlov
Succeeded byAleksandr Timonin
Personal details
Born (1950-01-16) 16 January 1950
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materKim Il Sung University
Moscow State Institute of International Relations
OccupationDiplomat
AwardsMedal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
DPRK Order of Friendship

Valery Yevgenyevich Sukhinin (Russian: Валерий Евгеньевич Сухинин; born 16 January 1950) is a Russian diplomat and Koreanist who served as the Russian Ambassador to North Korea from 2012 to 2014.