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N. Korea: Kim Jong-un's Family Consolidate Positions
Chosun Ilbo ^ | Sep. 05, 2014

Posted on 09/06/2014 7:55:02 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Kim Jong-un's Family Consolidate Positions

There are increasing signs that the immediate family of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are consolidating their positions in the regime, amid hints that his sister Yeo-jong has been promoted to a senior post.

The official [North] Korean Central News Agency on Thursday reported that the Kim Jong-un, his wife Ri Sol-ju and Kim Yeo-jong, watched a performance in Pyongyang on Wednesday.

In the status-conscious official media, the order of names speaks volumes, and KCNA named Yeo-jong ahead of Ri Jae-il, a senior official in charge of propaganda at the Workers Party. Previously she was named after Ri Jae-il.

That suggests Kim Yeo-jong, who has reportedly been in charge of an agency known as Room 38 under the Workers Party which manages the regime's coffers and businesses that earn foreign currency, has been promoted.

"Even Kim Jong-un was named after Army Chief Ri Yong-ho until he was designated successor to the throne," a source recalls. The source added that it is therefore highly likely the shift in the order of names signifies a promotion.

The fact that Ri Sol-ju was referred to as "comrade" rather than Kim's wife suggests that she also now holds an official position in the Workers Party.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kimjongun; kimyeojong; nkorea

1 posted on 09/06/2014 7:55:02 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...

P!


2 posted on 09/06/2014 7:55:27 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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Gee, it’s nice to hear that even in dictatorial NK, blood is thicker than water. /S


3 posted on 09/06/2014 8:03:32 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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This is why tyrants do not let the people own guns


4 posted on 09/06/2014 8:11:42 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
We have a totalitarian ‘BRATocracy.’ They are in 20’s and early 30’s.
5 posted on 09/06/2014 8:12:52 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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Considering that all things are subject to change, and that death is inevitable, it is more accurate to say that the Kim family has consolidated TEMPORARY positions.

Remember, only Jesus is the Boss Who Will Not Change.


6 posted on 09/06/2014 8:13:59 AM PDT by lurk
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little pos


7 posted on 09/06/2014 8:17:19 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Due to superior technology, now that travel time is now down to mere hours, will they be first to be colonizing the Sun?


8 posted on 09/06/2014 8:20:02 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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Now we know what a dictatorship of the proletariat looks like.


9 posted on 09/06/2014 8:42:50 AM PDT by all the best
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Kim”Consolidates”hie”Family”by means of The Executioner!


10 posted on 09/06/2014 9:35:08 AM PDT by bandleader
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Nice to see nepotlism is nice and alive in Chia Chub govt LOL!


11 posted on 09/06/2014 9:50:51 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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BRATocracy

I like that. I'm going to use it. A whole generation of people who have been "enlightened" by college professors in how to think correctly.

12 posted on 09/06/2014 10:26:34 AM PDT by BBell (I'm cynical and sarcastic and therefore I love Ann Coulter)
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