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N. Korea's army chief Ri Yong-ho relieved of all posts
Yonhap News ^
| 07/16/12
Posted on 07/15/2012 3:57:58 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
2012/07/16 07:41 KST
N. Korea's army chief Ri Yong-ho relieved of all posts
SEOUL, July 16 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Monday that its army chief Ri Yong-ho, known as a confidant of leader Kim Jong-un, has been removed from all his posts because of his "illness."
"A meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party decided to relieve Ri Yong-ho of all his posts for his illness," the North's Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch from Pyongyang.
The 70-year-old Ri was previously known as a key figure who helped Kim seize control of the military following the death of his father and former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il last December.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nkorea; purge; riyongho
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In NK, a man with the stature of Ri is allowed to keep his post even if he is incapacitated due to his illness. You won't say publicly on state media that he is removed. Unless Chia Junior decided to purge him. If even Ri gets an axe, few people in NK must feel safe, however high one's position is.
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...
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posted on
07/15/2012 3:59:27 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
If even Ri gets an axe, few people in NK must feel safe, however high one’s position is.
I would imagine that is the general idea.
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:01:14 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
It seems that Ri got in the way of Chia Junior’s uncle and his regent Jang Sung-taek.
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:01:31 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Maybe he’s at the same clinic as Jesse Jackson Jr.
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:01:35 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: TigerLikesRooster
In NK is poisoning considered an “illness?”
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:05:04 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
To: Joe 6-pack
To: jazusamo
Must be slow poisoning like putting small dose of arsenic over months.:-)
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:16:37 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I don’t think he will get an ax. I suspect he will get a bullet though.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Illness caused by bullet in head, perhaps.
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:18:33 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Illness? Likely the deadly Kalashni cough.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Raw-Ro, Ri ro wrong ray. Rim il Rung rot rappy. Rye Rye Ro.
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:23:21 PM PDT
by
lurk
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:24:24 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
To: TigerLikesRooster
... because of his "illness." 230 grains of lead in the brain will do that.
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:25:47 PM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
To: depressed in 06
They used to call it, “Kremlin Flu”
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:28:12 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(FUJR (not you, Jim))
To: Tijeras_Slim
Illness? Likely the deadly Kalashni cough. Kalashni cough?????
I'm stealing that!
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:33:44 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1271 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
To: TigerLikesRooster
NorK Army Chief Ri Given the "Yong-ho"
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posted on
07/15/2012 4:46:04 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Un-impressed)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Ri got in the way of Chia Junior’s uncle and his regent Jang Sung-taek.Nah. Ri was not a happy camper. He was all the time knockin' the Kimchi over to the mess hall. Always bitchin' it didn't smell bad enough.
Ya can't have a guy like that in the outfit. He hadda go.
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posted on
07/15/2012 5:08:25 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and FU Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
To: null and void
Kalashni cough????Now that, that was very good.
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posted on
07/15/2012 5:10:57 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and FU Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
To: Kenny Bunk; Tijeras_Slim
Don’t tell me, tell Tijeras_Slim!
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posted on
07/15/2012 5:17:40 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1271 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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