Shh! Kim Jong un might hear you!!

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Recently North Korean state media reported Vice Marshal Ri Yong Ho relieved of all his Party duties, namely his Politburo Standing Committee membership, Politburo membership, and Party Central Military Commission vice-chairmanship, stating this move was due to unspecified illness. This move was very unusual as the meeting at which his removal was announced was attended by the entire Politburo standing committee, Politburo members and candidate members, making ill health seem implausibly minor. Ri was replaced by Hyon Yong-chol in the role of the Chief of the General Staff.
There has been many theories for the removal of Ri, including the theory that Ri had lost the fight to secure the slush governing fund, or opposed Kim Jong-Un's policy. or that he was merely at the wrong place at the wrong time and became a sacrifice of power struggles.
Recently, there were rumors that Ri criticized Kim Jong-Un's open-door policy, while being wiretapped, and was purged as a result.
What ever the reason may be, this marks a shift in power between the political leadership and the armed froces with the political leadership in the ascendant.
And this even makes it even more difficult to predict and analyze the future of North Korea's leadership. We have to keep a close look at North Korea from now on for any contingencies.

 

[SayMyName]

Hopefully this is simply theatre, with Kim Jong-Un being allowed to go through the motions of excerting his new muscle. In time, I can't help but feel this young man will open a new door to the south, and possibly one that will finally lead to true reconciliation and reunification.

 

[waltky]

But why would So. Korea want to reunify with the North as long as lil' Kim is in office?...

China 'wild card' in any Korean unification effort, report says
January 19, 2013 — South Korea is downplaying a U.S. Senate report that suggests China might resist reunification of the two Koreas.

“The South Korean government expects that the Chinese government will put a lot of effort into the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula,” a Ministry of Unification official said last week. A minority staff report filed in December with the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee called China a “wild card” on the possibility of reunification between the capitalist South and communist North, calling it “an eventuality that Chinese leaders may determine they cannot allow.” “The interests of China and the United States related to North Korea — regional stability vs. denuclearization — are not the same,” the 84-page report said.

In a letter accompanying the report — “China’s Impact on Korean Peninsula Unification and Questions for the Senate” — Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., explained the document was aimed at alerting committee members that uniting the two Koreas may be more difficult than joining the two Germanys was in 1990. “Another outcome is possible,” he wrote. “China’s historical claim to territory within the borders of the Korean peninsula and the expanding investment by China within North Korea point to a situation where China may attempt to manage, if not oppose, the process of Korean peninsula unification.” Questions about the long-term viability of poverty-wracked North Korea have been rife for years, along with speculation on what might result as China, South Korea, the U.S. and other countries scramble to protect their interests.

The Senate report suggests reunification could result from “the warming of relations between the North and South, accompanied by accelerated commercial and other activities, or an abrupt seismic event within North Korea contributing to the demise of the present government.” The report indicates China would have a number of reasons for opposing any movement of North Koreans across its border, and any movement of the U.S. or its ally South Korea into the North.

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[jjjzaw]

Hopefully this is simply theatre, with Kim Jong-Un being allowed to go through the motions of excerting his new muscle. In time, I can't help but feel this young man will open a new door to the south, and possibly one that will finally lead to true reconciliation and reunification.

North Korea is a theater, all simple Koreans suffer on stage.