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
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,356 posts)rocktivity
(44,585 posts)K to the J to the U-N is in the hizzy!
rocktivity
permatex
(1,299 posts)was N. Korea, so he promoted himself.
He's newly 'N. Korea,' so we wait to see what he does as such.
permatex
(1,299 posts)you can't be the top military commander?
elleng
(131,370 posts)but no idea about his relations with the military.
Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)or something like that.
Turbineguy
(37,412 posts)Just ask George W Bush.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)don't hold me to that, just thinking outloud.
zellie
(437 posts)can't wait to see whats next.