SEOUL – Kim Jong Un has promoted Minister of People’s Security Choe Pu Il to the rank of General, a KCNA dispatch said on Tuesday morning.

Choe will keep his position as minister but simultaneously hold his higher General rank in the Korean People’s Army (KPA).

“The prevailing situation urgently requires the people’s security organ and the KPISF, revolutionary armed forces of the Workers’ Party of Korea, to defend the socialist system as firm as an iron wall and reliably guarantee the party’s line of simultaneously pushing forward the economic construction and the building of nuclear force with arms and by