Posted on 01/13/2021 6:41:04 AM PST by BenLurkin
The development is a surprise because Kim Yo Jong, who became an alternate member of the Politburo last year, was widely expected to receive a full bureau membership during a ruling Workers’ Party congress that ended Tuesday. A Politburo membership is viewed as crucial for high-level officials hoping to thrive in Kim Jong Un’s government because he’s made key decisions at bureau meetings, including the 2013 move to execute his powerful uncle Jang Song Taek, and the 2012 purge of military chief Ri Yong Ho.
When the eight-day congress, the first of its kind since 2016, opened last week, Kim Yo Jong, who is thought to be about 32, sat on the leadership podium, standing out amid the often elderly, overwhelmingly male party cadres. But when the congress on Monday announced a list of 30 alternate and full members of the Politburo, including the 37-year-old Kim Jong Un, her name wasn’t there.
Kim Yo Jong hasn’t been purged or forced to quit politics, a fate that some officials have met under Kim Jong Un, and she still retains her membership in the party’s Central Committee, also a high-level body. But when she released a statement criticizing South Korea on Wednesday, state media identified her as a “vice department director” of the party, a lower rank than her previous title of “first vice department director.”
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She ought to call Hunter Biden.......it’s been reported Hunter has a direct line to the Politburo.
Don’t piss of your brother after he’s already killed one brother and an uncle ...
Not this crap again ugh.
KYJ is the defacto number-two she’s currently planning provocations and other military actions against the u.s.-rok
She herself demoted herself as a show of loyalty to him (KJU), along with to the people (DPRK )in taking responsibility for things going haywire also its the North’s way of spreading rumors/disinformation in A. Weeding out traitors within the regime B. Getting the ROK-U.S. alliance and Japan to go down rabbit trails remember the rumors of the demise and death of KJU this past spring/summer?
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