North Korea created a new top government entity and appointed Kim Jong Un as its chairman, the state-run Korean Central Television and Korean Central News Agency revealed Wednesday.
At the fourth session of the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly – the North’s rubber-stamp legislature – Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the SPA and North Korea’s de jure head-of-state, announced that Kim Jong Un would be appointed chairman of the new State Affairs Commission.
North Korea created a new top government entity and appointed Kim Jong Un as its chairman, the state-run Korean Central Television and Korean Central News Agency revealed Wednesday.
At the fourth session of the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly – the North’s rubber-stamp legislature – Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the SPA and North Korea’s de jure head-of-state, announced that Kim Jong Un would be appointed chairman of the new State Affairs Commission.
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