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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been appointed as the Labor Party general secretary.
It was the first time I was elected to the position of general secretary who is also a symbol of my father Kim Jong-il through the party conference.
In fact, my younger brother Kim Yeo-jung, who has been selected as the number two, was excluded from this promotion list.
Reporter Ayoung Kim analyzed the background.
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Chairman Kim Jong-un has added the title of Secretary General of the Labor Party.
[Chosun JoongAng TV: Reflecting the same wishes and wishes, it is decided to be highly elected as the general secretary of the Korean Workers' Party.] The
official title of the party was changed to the general secretary after the 1st secretary in the early years of power and the chairman of the Labor Party in 2016.
After the death of Kim Jong-il's father,'Eternal General Secretary', he took over the position he had left vacant and reaffirmed his position as the highest leader.
Some analysts say that they showed a willingness to focus more on the party-centered stance.
[Han-beom Cho/Senior Fellow, Korea Institute for National Unification: If he wore a suit in 2016 and aimed for normalization at the 7th Party Congress, Chairman Kim, who faced a crisis, wore a people's suit and returned to a socialist system and a secretary system.
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unexpected greeting came to Kim Yeo-jeong, the'de facto second person,' who oversaw the policy toward the United States and South Korea.
Rather than being promoted to a member of the Political Bureau, he was demoted from the existing candidate of the Political Bureau.
Eligibility for attendance at the Political Bureau meeting, a major decision-making body, has also been removed.
Some analysts say it is a censure person, but a high-ranking government official said, "We need to keep an eye on what role we will play in the future."
[Jeongdaejin / Ajou University Institute for Unification Studies Professor (Kim Yo-jong is) seems to be more wait and see yiraseo situation that holds the seat central committee party was at the back of Kim Jong Un chairman, also is captured at the public appearance -
while the closest joyongwon Kim's Deputy We have advanced to the 5th place in the ranks of the standing committee of the Political Bureau.
It is evaluated that the position of secretary in charge of the US and South Korea has not been announced at all, and the status of Sun-hee Choi, an American reunionist, has been lowered, while Kim Seong-nam, a Chinese reunionist, has become the party's manager.
(Video editing: Park Ki-duk)