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China to Send Senior Official to North Korea
[VOA News] China plans to send a bigwig to  North Korea this week for commemorations of the founding of North Korea's ruling party, North Korea's state media said on Sunday.Liu Yunshan, a leading member of the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee, who is ranked fifth in the party hierarchy, will travel to Pyongyang on Friday. Liu is expected to attend the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party on Saturday, October 10, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Liu would be the most senior Chinese official to visit North Korea since Kim PudgeJong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... took power in late 2011. The Chinese official is likely to meet with Kim, according to officials and analysts in Seoul. Posted by: Fred 2015-10-06 |
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