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Out of sight for a month, young Kim is supposedly ill. But rumors are swirling hes been deposedand North Koreas second most powerful man now feels confident enough to travel South.
Hwang Pyong So must be feeling pretty good about himself right now. At the latest Supreme Peoples Assembly meeting, he was made vice chairman of the National Defense Commission. This was after his promotion to director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean Peoples Army, making him the top political officer in the military. In a country where there is supposed to be no No. 2 official, he is called the second-most powerful figure.
Now he has crossed the border into South Korea on a one-day, short-notice trip, triggering hopes of reconciliation between the arch-rival republicsand heightening speculation about the fate of Kim Jong Un, North Koreas young supremo, who has not been seen in public since September 3.
Hwangs trip South on Saturday comes on the heels of a widely publicized report that Kim has been deposed. Jang Jin Sung, a former North Korean counterintelligence and propaganda official, is claiming that the Organization and Guidance Department of the Korean Workers Party, responsible for promotions within the regime, has taken over the country. Kim, according to Jang, is now merely a puppet.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/05/has-north-korea-s-kim-jong-un-been-toppled.html
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Maybe there's not much hope, but I can dream.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)the better.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Or is So so-so?
snooper2
(30,151 posts)which cannot be compared to our artillery shelling on Yeonpyeong Island.
(This was put out in April by the DPRK official news channel LOL)