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...“The bureaucracy don’t talk to each other,” said Ms Pak. “Kim has been purging hundreds of people....
...Pak Pong Ju, the 80-year-old premier since 2013, has also been replaced by the little-known Kim Jae Ryong, who was a communist party leader in a mountainous province....
...Citing an intelligence source, South Korean state news agency Yonhap also reported that North Korea had replaced defence minister Pak Yong Sik with a more moderate official....
...Under current chief justice Kim Myeong-su, the Supreme Court has said it would co-operate with prosecutors’ investigation....
...almost sense the ripples of excitement that must be spreading through Pyongyang as Kim Jong Un savours this opportunity to advance his goal of obtaining recognition as a nuclear weapons power,” said Jung Pak...
...“He hasn’t travelled, as far as we know, in the past six years,” says Ms Pak. “It has been pretty much Fortress Korea.”...
...Lee Yong-su, one of the former sex slaves, said on Monday: “I will completely ignore the agreement. There is nothing in it for the victims....
...“Abe has yet to realise what his country has done to us,” said Lee Yong-su, an 88-year-old former sex slave who joined the rally. “I am at a loss for words . . ....
...One person who will not be going: North Korea’s foreign minister, Ri Su Yong, whose invitation was revoked after Pyongyang tested a nuclear bomb...
...North Korea reciprocated in the autumn by sending Ri Su Yong, the foreign minister, and Choe Ryong Hae, a top aide to Kim Jong Un, to Russia for two unusually long trips totalling 18 days....
...In a speech to the UN human rights council, foreign minister Ri Su Yong accused North Korea’s critics of involvement in a “human rights racket”, repeating Pyongyang’s allegations that last year’s 400-page...
...Among the thousands of other abductees was the father of Choi Sung-yong, a fisherman whose vessel was seized by North Korean forces in 1967....
...Mr Pak, who was nominally in charge of economic reform, will be replaced by Kim Yong-il, the 63-year-old land and transport minister, the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a report on Wednesday’s...
...Pak Hyun-yong was, by North Korean standards, an entrepreneur. Too much of an entrepreneur....
...“The Roh Moo-hyun government introduced systems to cut down on corruption but they are still very unstable,” says Kim Chong-su, secretary-general of the Council for the Korean Pact on Anti-Corruption and...
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