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North Korea's trend of military figures taking positions in ruling party changing: Analysts | Critics are puzzled over Pyongyang's high-level military reshuffle since Kim Jong-un took power in December, and believe the traditional trend of military figures taking a majority of the positions in the country's ruling Workers' Party is now changing, according to a report.
When Kim Jong Il died last year, they held more posts than at any previous point during his 17
years in power. According to The Wall Street Journal, analysts believe the purging of army
chief Ri Yong Ho and the removal
of two other military leaders, and them being replaced by three civilians, appears
to signal a reversal of an established trend. "I think the tide has turned," the
paper quoted Aidan Foster-Carter, a North Korea watcher at Leeds University in
England, as saying. "Under Kim Jong Il, possibly because his own military credentials
weren't so strong, the military rose significantly. But Kim Jong un's arrival
has been managed by the political party," Foster-Carter added. According to the
paper, others cautioned that it is too early to know precisely why Ri, a longtime
confidante of the Kim family, lost his job. " North Korea is 'very mysterious.
It's hard for us to understand exactly what they are up to.But from my understanding,
this appears to be political combat," the paper quoted Zhang Liangui, professor
of international strategic research at the Party School of the China Communist
Party Central Committee, as saying. Meanwhile, senior U.S. officials said they
were closely monitoring the personnel changes in Pyongyang to gauge whether Kim
might pursue a new foreign policy for North Korea . According to the paper, these
officials noted there have already been dramatic changes in the geopolitics of
East Asia this year with Myanmar , Pyongyang 's close ally, opening to the West.
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