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Tue Jul 17, 2012, 11:35 PM

elleng (40,543 posts)

NKorea Promotes Kim Jong Un to Military's Top Rank.

Source: AP/NYT

North Korea says its leader Kim Jong Un has been promoted to marshal, the military's highest rank.

North Korean state media made the announcement Wednesday in a special bulletin.

The move follows several days of reshuffling at the highest levels of North Korea's most powerful institution: its million-man military. The changes are widely seen by outside observers as an attempt by the new leader to put his stamp on the government he inherited seven months ago when his father Kim Jong Il died.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/07/17/world/asia/ap-as-nkorea.html?hp

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11 replies	Author	Time	Post
NKorea Promotes Kim Jong Un to Military's Top Rank. (Original post)	elleng	Jul 2012	OP
He's earned it.	Hassin Bin Sober	Jul 2012	#1
Call the Stephanie Miller show	rocktivity	Jul 2012	#2
I thought that Kim Jong Un	permatex	Jul 2012	#3
Yes.	elleng	Jul 2012	#5
Can you even imagine anyone telling him no,	permatex	Jul 2012	#6
Not likely,	elleng	Jul 2012	#7
In related news, the sun rose today.	Suji to Seoul	Jul 2012	#4
He's the decider	itsrobert	Jul 2012	#8
It's cool to be the Dicktater!	Turbineguy	Jul 2012	#9
Now I can't confirm this but I suspect nepotism may have played a role in this	4th law of robotics	Jul 2012	#10
Paradise does have its priviledges.	zellie	Jul 2012	#11

Response to elleng (Original post)

Tue Jul 17, 2012, 11:36 PM

Hassin Bin Sober (8,617 posts)

1. He's earned it.

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:16 AM

rocktivity (36,627 posts)

2. Call the Stephanie Miller show

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K to the J to the U-N is in the hizzy!

rocktivity

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:28 AM

permatex (1,299 posts)

3. I thought that Kim Jong Un

was N. Korea, so he promoted himself.

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Response to permatex (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:35 AM

elleng (40,543 posts)

5. Yes.

He's newly 'N. Korea,' so we wait to see what he does as such.

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:51 AM

permatex (1,299 posts)

6. Can you even imagine anyone telling him no,

you can't be the top military commander?

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:57 AM

elleng (40,543 posts)

7. Not likely,

but no idea about his relations with the military.

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:34 AM

Suji to Seoul (1,921 posts)

4. In related news, the sun rose today.

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:57 AM

itsrobert (9,069 posts)

8. He's the decider

or something like that.

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:38 PM

Turbineguy (16,548 posts)

9. It's cool to be the Dicktater!

Just ask George W Bush.

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:53 PM

4th law of robotics (6,801 posts)

10. Now I can't confirm this but I suspect nepotism may have played a role in this

don't hold me to that, just thinking outloud.

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 01:19 PM

zellie (437 posts)

11. Paradise does have its priviledges.

can't wait to see whats next.

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