A report published last week on the dynamics in the North Korean power elite under Kim Jong Un asserted that there is a “low possibility of instability” in the North Korean leadership.
In it the report’s author Cheong Seong-chang, chief of the Unification Strategy Team at the Sejong Institute, asserts that the dismissal of officials doesn’t necessarily mean they have been “purged,” saying that it appears only two officials – Ri Young Ho and Hyon Young Chol – have been purged. Among the two, Hyon is the only one reportedly executed, the report reads.
A report published last week on the dynamics in the North Korean power elite under Kim Jong Un asserted that there is a “low possibility of instability” in the North Korean leadership.
In it the report’s author Cheong Seong-chang, chief of the Unification Strategy Team at the Sejong Institute, asserts that the dismissal of officials doesn’t necessarily mean they have been “purged,” saying that it appears only two officials – Ri Young Ho and Hyon Young Chol – have been purged. Among the two, Hyon is the only one reportedly executed, the report reads.
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