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China-Japan-Koreas |
Kim reshuffles defence panel |
2007-05-22 |
![]() General Ri Myong-Su, formerly armed forces operations director, was recently named to serve exclusively as a standing member of the commission, Yonhap said quoting an unnamed source. It followed the April appointment of Vice Marshal Kim Yong-Chun as full-time vice chairman of the commission after he quit as military chief of staff, it said. The military top brass of the nuclear-armed nation had previously usually assumed dual posts, both at the commission and with the armed forces. The National Intelligence Service, Seoul’s main spy agency, refused to confirm the news reports. “We are still checking it,” a spokesman said. Local media said the reshuffle heralds a further strengthening of the already powerful National Defence Commission (NDC). “The NDC seems to have become, at least externally, the North’s highest decision-making body as a number of top military officials have recently been appointed to permanent posts of the defence commission,” the source told Yonhap. “We believe the NDC may become an actual (properly structured) organisation in the near future with hundreds of resident staff like the other top decision-making bodies” such as the ruling Workers’ Party, the official added. Nam Sung-Wook, a North Korea expert at Korea University, said the reshuffle was part of Kim’s long-standing policy of checks and balances. |
Posted by:Pappy |
#2 Don't know who looks sillier, the bunny or the bozos in uniform next to him. They are a more mutant race than I suspected. |
Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-05-22 07:41 |
#1 Great photo lol, of the North Korean Red rabbit :) |
Posted by: Mark Espinola 2007-05-22 02:26 |