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| N.Korean Parliament to Meet for 2nd Time This Year |
| 2012-09-06 |
| North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly convenes for the second time this year on Sept. 25, the state-run KCNA news agency reported on Wednesday. It did not say what will be discussed. The first meeting took place in April. The rubber-stamp parliament met twice a year in the days of nation founder Kim Il-sung but only once a year since Kim Jong-il officially took power in 1998, except in 2003 and 2010. There is speculation that the National Defense Commission, the top decision-making body under Kim Jong-il, will be restructured to reflect recent changes, according to Ryu Dong-ryeol at the Police Science Institute. Former army chief Ri Yong-ho was Perhaps Choe will be promoted to vice chairman of the NDC and old guards like vice chairmen Ri Yong-mu (87), O Kuk-ryol (82) and Kim Yong-chun (76) and NDC member Ju Kyu-chang (84) put on the scrap heap. Or they'll just be shot, if they haven't been already... Any void could be filled by Kim Yong-chol, the head of the General Reconnaissance Bureau who is in charge of anti-South Korean operations, and new army chief Hyon Yong-chol. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 I wish Congress would only meet twice a year |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2012-09-06 10:07 |
| #1 It's kind of like those old James Bond movies - where SPECTRE would meet for a management review. Then some guy's chair would fall through a hole in the floor and he would be dropped into the shark cage. You just never know who could disappear at a meeting of the North Korean Parliament :-) |
| Posted by: Raider 2012-09-06 09:47 |