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Ri Yong Ho is the official who was effectively sidelined after the Hanoi meetings and was removed from office because the interlocutors selected by the foreign ministry appeared not to accomplish anything.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There has been a demonstrative crossover dynamic in which senior military officials migrate into the party leadership.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is a man who might provide some tactical advice to the leader but is otherwise a message bearer with little negotiating or policymaking latitude, instead, they put in someone like Kim Hyok Chol to insulate Choe Son Hui and more substantive diplomatic personnel, to a certain degree he is expendable and his superiors are not.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We have to remember that (Foreign Minister) Ri and Choe are not only North Korea's best people for the job of dealing with the U.S..
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There are only certain designated facilities where these communications can be activated.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Kim can authorize or approve a missile strike while he is away, there's a protocol for launches.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
All these guys are Kim Jong Un people, kim Jong Un is going to put people in place he can trust, who are loyal to him.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
( Kim) is not going to want these military commissars helping themselves to any of this assistance coming to the North, that was a problem during the sunshine period, a lot of misappropriation and malfeasance.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
All these( promoted) guys are top Kim Jong Un guys, all three of them have held very sensitive and high level positions under Kim Jong Un, they're very loyal( to Kim Jong), and all have experience interacting with foreign delegations.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
From about June 2017 to earlier this year, the KPA general political bureau was under investigation by the( ruling Worker's Party), the first time in 20 years that the GPB was under investigation.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
They are shaping these guys up because there is going to be a lot of foreign interaction, they know to sit there and not get too drunk at the parties ... they know how to behave themselves.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
There's not much of a contrast in how South Korea and North Korea are reporting this, i'm kind of stunned that they're following the script.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Kim Yo Jong has a bigger policy portfolio [than her brother], and is more powerful than we’re giving her credit for.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We don’t know a tremendous amount about him [Kim Jong Un], but we have enough for a good picture.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We don’t know a tremendous amount about him [Kim Jong Un], but we have a enough for a good picture.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
His status has always been kind of questionable within the Kim family, and he’s had multiple jobs. But he’s mild mannered, and a ‘yes man,’.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Kim Yo-jong has a bigger policy portfolio [than her brother], and is more powerful than we’re giving her credit for.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Kim Jong Un has been very good actually about promoting people that didn’t have the traditional patronage ties.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
He is a guy that’s helped them identify certain technical problems or reach certain technical benchmarks and that’s a critical thing.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
When that thing went off and entered into a lower earth orbit, he got credit for that, the nuclear and missile guys under Kim Jong Un are getting their jobs based on merit.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Foreign nationals in the DPRK really have to allow for there to be no ambiguity or interpretation about any of their interactions or what they're doing.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
PUST exposes them to all sorts of subject matter and to interesting people, they benefit enormously from that, and North Korea is not going to upset that applecart.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Hacks and cronies are out in favor of professional military men.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The KPA (Korean People's Army) is undergoing actual modernization. Kim Jong Un is cutting through some of the fiefdoms and patronage networks that had grown too powerful.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Party Congress is the most effective way to re-set North Korean political culture.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He's tried other things such as (Workers' Party) Political Bureau meetings, dismissals, demotions, etc., and it hasn't had the effect he wanted, the Party Congress is the most effective way to re-set North Korean political culture.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In many ways, Kim Jong Il ruled the country in open violation of the party charter.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Under Kim Jong Il, these guys would get their fiefdom then the leader gets to regulate it when he needs to, it's not unlike the mafia, or the Sopranos, where Tony has to make a ruling.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Kim Yang Gon had enemies in the leadership who could do something like this without impunity, or at least it being linked directly to them.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There is no clear or present danger to Kim Jong Un's leadership or regime stability, but if this continues to happen into next year, then we should seriously start to think about revising our scenarios on North Korea.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
North Korean internal politics is very volatile these days, internally, there does not seem to be any respect for Kim Jong Un within the core and middle levels of the North Korean leadership.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We can safely say that Ri Chol is a father figure to Kim Jong Un.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's kind of a mystery why he called himself Ri Chol, there are several of these senior guys that are close to the center in Pyongyang and they use different names.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
People who are nominally her superiors most likely defer to her.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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