The North Korean bureaucracy, or rather the part responsible for foreign policy issues, is currently in the midst of a storm. 

Institutions that have existed for decades are being disbanded with little warning, and concepts long regarded as sacred cornerstones of the official ideology are no longer supposed to be mentioned. 

When leader Kim Jong Un statedon Dec. 30 last year that the DPRK would no longer view South Korea as a partner in the prolonged march for unification but rather as a foreign and hostile state, he dropped an ideological bombshell, the consequences of which are likely to