Pyongyang confirms Pak is People’s Armed Forces Minister

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Pyongyang confirms Pak is People’s Armed Forces Minister

Pak’s appointment likely meant to increase party control of military

John G. Grisafi July 13, 2015

Pyongyang confirms Pak is People’s Armed Forces Minister

KCNA

North Korean state media confirmed that Pak Yong Sik is the current minister of the People’s Armed Forces on Saturday.

Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central News Agency referred to Pak by the title of Minister of the People’s Armed Forces for the first time in a report on Saturday about on talks between military delegations of North Korea and Laos. Pak was the senior North Korean military officer at the talks.

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John G. Grisafi

John G. Grisafi is an analyst and Korean linguist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Having previously worked as an analyst for the United States Army in South Korea and studied Korean at the Defense Language Institute, he is now majoring in East Asian Languages & Civilization and History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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