North Korean leader | If we had a CIA worth anything we'd be spreading rumors throughout North Korea that Pudgy has been whacked in a quiet coup by the generals. And each time we'd name a different group of generals. And we'd be reaching out to those generals to see who would make a deal with us and who'd prefer to disappear forever in a Chinese gulag... |
| Cheese and cognac will do that to you -- causes the gout to flare. Gout is really, really painful... |
At the SPA session, Hwang Pyong-so, who had earlier replaced Choe Ryong-hae as army chief, was appointed a vice chairman of the top decision-making National Defense Commission.
The SPA "recalled" Choe Ryong-hae "from the post of vice chairman of the National Defense Commission… due to his transfer to another post," state TV reported. After he became party secretary for workers' organizations, Choe took a post in charge of overseeing sports, which was once held by executed eminence grise Jang Song-taek.
Choe became army chief and vice chairman of the National Defense Commission at the last session of the SPA in April, but has now already forfeited his position. Instead the regime consolidated Hwang's standing. He was already given Choe's old job of chief of the Army politburo in May.
| Hwang's the man. Can we whack him? |