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Name Position Comments Lieutenant General Ju To-hyon Lieutenant General Tong Yong-il Lieutenant General An Ji-yong Unknown (military officer) Unknown (military officer presumably affiliated with the GPB) Commander, Island Defense • First public appearance was at a February 1, 2009 ceremony to vote for Kim Jong-il as a candidate to the 12th SPA, one month after Kim Jong-un was announced as heir apparent within the North Korean leadership • Began accompanying Kim Jong-un on guidance inspections in June 2013 • Ranked 59th on Jon Pyong-ho’s Funeral Committee list • Participated in a meeting between Choe Ryong-hae and the Vietnamese Director of the General Political Department in July 2013 • Attended the Eighth Meeting of KWP Ideological Functionaries in February 2014 • Promoted to major general in 2010 • Appeared on television as Deputy Fourth Corps Commander in March 2012 as part of an anti-South Korean media campaign • Began to accompany Kim Jong-un in August 2012 when Kim inspected island defense detachments stationed along the southwestern front • Part of Kim’s cohort that inspected the Changjae Islet Defense Detachment and Mu Islet Hero Defense Detachment in March 2013 • Frequent cohort on inspections of island detachments • Ranked 69th on Jon Pyong-ho’s Funeral Committee list Ken E. Gause 103
Name Position Comments Lieutenant General Ryom Cholsong Lieutenant General Jo Nam-jin Vice Admiral Ri Yong-chu Lieutenant General Ri Song-guk Major General Rim Kwang-il Major General Jang Chang-hwa Director, GPB Propaganda Department Director, GPB Organization Department Commander, KPA Navy Commander, KPA Fourth Corps Unknown (Military Officer) Unknown (Military officer) • Began accompanying Kim Jong-un on guidance inspections in February 2013 • Part of a commemorative photograph taken in March 2013 with Kim and military propaganda officials, suggesting Ryom is affiliated with the GPB • Ranked 46th on Jon Pyong-ho’s Funeral Committee list • Began accompanying Kim Jongun on guidance inspections in November 2013 • Identified as KPA Navy Commander during Kim Jong-un’s inspection of Unit 164 in April 2015 • Elected to the 13th SPA in June 2014 • Ranked 61st on Jon Pyong-ho’s Funeral Committee list • Appointed to his post in April 2013 • Assumed to be close to Kim Jongun but does not appear in the North Korean media as part of guidance inspections • Interviewed by KCNA in August 2012 in conjunction with Kim Jong-un’s inspection of island defenses • Accompanied Kim on an inspection of a military exercise in February 2013 • Accompanied Kim on many military inspections related to coastal and island defense • Began accompanying Kim Jong-un in May 2015 at his inspection of the Sokmak Atlantic Salmon Breed-fish Ground and Raksan Offshore Salmon Fish Farm under KPA Unit 810 Committee for Human Rights in North Korea 104
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North Korean House of Cards Leaders
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Copyright © 2015 Committee for Hum
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Jack David Senior Fellow, Hudson In
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3. The Regent Structure............
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d. Ministry of People’s Security.
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II. PREFACE After his seminal 2012
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the reader that many are purged bec
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IV. ABOUT THIS STUDY There are nume
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VI. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Merriam-Webst
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ultimate decision maker and sole so
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humanity; in order to understand cr
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32. NIS: South Korean National Inte
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egent structure would begin to chan
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However, there is very little evide
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IX. SECTION ONE: NORTH KOREAN LEADE
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All Party members, military men, an
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Dressed in black, gloveless, and ba
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choreography of the transfer of pow
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suffered a stroke. 18, 19 A month l
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the GPB in the Kim Jong-il era, beg
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2009 from Chief of the GSD to Comma
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posting, Ri had been the Fifth Corp
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Days after Jang Jong-nam was identi
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4. Civil-Military Relations by Mid-
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above, especially the purge of Ri Y
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leaders include Choe Ryong-hae, Kim
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of the military. More than that of
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B. CHAPTER TWO: THE PURGE OF JANG S
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afforded Jang the opportunity to me
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and merged into the RGB as Bureaus
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Page 87 and 88: Name Position(s) Comments Kim Solso
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Page 121 and 122: Name Position Comments Kim Choljin
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Page 127 and 128: While there is debate within the co
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1. The Personal Secretariat under K
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of Kim’s death in 2011, it is rum
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Kim Jong-il Secretariat was not an
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and manner of operation, however, a
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a. Personal Secretariat Personnel a
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In 2013, South Korean media reports
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Supreme Command apparatus to the GS
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. Secretarial Office of the Central
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from the field commands, as well as
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administrative. Kim Jong-il, a more
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overseeing the implementation of th
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C. CHAPTER SIX: THE ROYAL ECONOMY
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for Kim Il-sung’s own consolidati
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Following the creation of Office 39
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The Early European Connection In th
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numerous subordinate trade and fore
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According to a former diplomat who
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National Intelligence Service (NIS)
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gifts through their place of employ
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ack to Office 39 and into the Royal
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from Office 38 to Office 99 in 2005
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General Trading Corporation, then a
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Hong Kong, and Singapore. These bus
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Kim Jong-il’s private secretary a
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Jang’s Channel to China The Korea
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Chart 10: Jang’s Channel into the
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the Royal Economy. In the summer of
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projects ends up in the Royal Econo
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leadership dynamics inside North Ko
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• The KWP Administrative Departme
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• Tourism represents a growing so
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Chart 12: Jang’s Tapping into Mil
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In addition to these reforms, Kim J
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Despite the regime’s efforts to s
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Night of the Long Knives. Saddam Hu
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In the months following the Party c
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According to South Korean sources,
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In April 2012, the regime made a nu
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National Security Meeting, January
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focus of the meeting was tied to lo
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of the GC escorted Jang from the ha
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as it related to the KWP Administra
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it became more difficult for trader
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Name Post Relationship to the OGD M
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Star.” 545 His elevation in North
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the command and control structure o
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the connections between the larger
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i. Structure The headquarters of th
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Chart 18: Organizational Chart of t
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Pyongyang Anti-Aircraft Artillery C
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Palace of the Sun, which holds the
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ii. Cordon of Security: Relationshi
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iii. Role in the Regime It is assum
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assume the role of political office
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• The Eighth Bureau (Border Secur
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d. Ministry of People’s Security
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chain of command and is responsible
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olstering internal security. Provin
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associate, these fortunes began to
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offices: the Cadre Department, the
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Jo Kyong-chol seated at the far lef
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XI. CONCLUSION To commemorate the 1
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Others see a ruthless regime that i
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it remains to be seen whether this
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continues to create the image of a
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had been executed by anti-aircraft
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• General Ri Yong-gil (60) has be
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2. Party • Kang Sok-ju (76) has b
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• Kim Song-nam (62) is an alterna
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domestic and social issues .668 He
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may occasionally be able to reach o
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Committee list.At the Third Session
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1970s, 692 but his career was resur
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Vice Chairman of the NDC, O Kuk-ryo
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of communication to Kim Jong-un lik
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• Ju Kyu-chang (87) has been an a
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General Pak as his successor withou
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as the “Storm Corps.” He first
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present for Kim Jong-un’s guidanc
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senior leadership are evident in hi
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on debt settlement issues with Russ
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Date Visit Gift (as described in No
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Date Visit Gift (as described in No
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XIV. APPENDIX C: NORTH KOREAN MILIT
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Insignia Title/Name 소좌 (So-jwa)
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B. KOREAN PEOPLE’S ARMY NAVAL FOR
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Insignia Title/Name 상위 (Sang-wi
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C. KOREAN PEOPLE’S ARMY AIR FORCE
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Insignia Title/Name 상위 (Sang-wi
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XV. BIBLIOGRAPHY A. Books and Journ
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54. Cathcart, Adam. “Thrice-Curse
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117. “Is Kim Jong Un Playing Musi
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191. Lee, Gyo-Gwan. “Kim Jong-il
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264. “North Korea’s Kim Jong-un
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