High-level North Korean delegation to attend AG closing ceremony (current & former No. 2 men)

Korea Herald ^ | 2014-10-04

[TigerLikesRooster]

High-level North Korean delegation to attend AG closing ceremony

North Korea plans to send a high-ranking delegation to the Incheon Asian Games closing ceremony Saturday, Seoul's Ministry of Unification said.

According to official sources, the North informed the South on Friday that it wants to send Hwang Pyong-so, Choe Ryong-hae and Kim Yang-gon to the ceremony slated for 6 p.m. Saturday.

The three officials plan to arrive via a direct air route from North Korea to Incheon at 10 a.m.

Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae is expected to hold talks with the North Korean officials after their arrival.

Hwang was recently tapped as the director of the military's General Political Bureau, the top military post in North Korea.

Kim is head of the United Front Department of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, tasked with overseeing the activities of sleeper agents operating in South Korea, while Hwang is said to exert considerable influence in the North despite stepping down from his post of deputy chairman of the National Defense Commission.

Seoul, meanwhile, said it will withhold judgment on why the North is sending such a high-level delegation to Incheon at this juncture. (Yonhap)

[TigerLikesRooster]

This is big. Hwang Pyong-so is regime's current No. 2 man, while Choe is reportedly no longer No. 2 but used to be until recently. Kim Yang-gon is the head of division overseeing all inter-Korean affairs.

This visit may have not been planned in advance. This is a highly unusual development. Something is really up in N. Korea.

[BenLurkin]

Meet the new boss?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Something big is going on.

[morphing libertarian]

How ill is Il

[SevenofNine]

OHHHH this is interesting LOL!

Maybe Chia Chub dying of Russia flu

[Publius]

The Kim family may have been overthrown.

[Deathtomarxists]

Cleared air corridor? Their nukes can’t fit on a missile but they can sure fit in a plane...

[refermech]

October surprise. Rodman slipped the fat man a mickey. Obama had it planned out all along. Just in time for the elections.

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[left that other site]

Oh. Asian Games.

I thought this was referring to Eric Holder’s resignation ceremony.

[VanShuyten]

“Meet the new boss?”

Or gettin’ outa Dodge!

[nuconvert]

hmmmmmmm.........

[Bogey78O]

Someone is about to considerably change the status quo?

[BenLurkin]

Excellent!

[left that other site]

hehehehe

I have wicked thoughts sometimes.

[The KG9 Kid]

If and when the Korean states peacefully reunify, the culture shock and contrast is going to be several orders of magnitude greater compared to when West and East Germany reunited.

Seoul must be like a city from 500 years in the future compared to Pyongyang. Like bringing Genghis Khan into The Jetsons. They won't even know what the hell they're looking at.

And Japan would be like 1000 years into the future. Maybe more.

South Koreans could probably pay pocket money to North Koreans to lay down on their backs while the South Koreans drive golf balls off of their puckered lips ...and the North Koreans would think they've hit the gravy train.

The South Korean Christian community will really be earning their stripes caring for the exodus of Northern refugees, believe me.

[GeronL]

None of those athletes from NK defected because their families are hostages and would die in their stead.

[GeronL]

but who s in charge? A military junta?

[GeronL]

It’s like an Asian Olympics

[left that other site]

Yeah...I kind of figured that.

I was just sharing my first impression upon reading the headline. LOL.