Kim Jong Un’s visit to the Kumsusan mausoleum last week revealed important leadership changes that underlined the military’s likely role in the “grave” COVID-19 incident recently.

Several military officials were demoted and reshuffled, and this included changes to the ministers of defense and public security as well as the transfer of the party’s highest military official to oversee only a party department instead of the military as a whole. 

The minister of agriculture was also lifted into the politburo in a clear response to North Korea’s “food crisis” — one of only