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Jeongmin Kim
Jeongmin Kim is a correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. She previously worked for the CSIS Korea Chair and in the Seoul bureau of Reuters news agency. Follow her on Twitter @jeongminnkim
North Korea appears to have promoted three top officials to full members of its powerful Politburo, photos suggested this week.
Images of last weekend's enlarged Politburo (PB) of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) meeting showed Kim Hyong Jun, Ho Chol Man, and Ri Ho Rim holding their hands up to vote -- suggesting the three have risen in the political hierarchy.