NORTH KOREA TO ELECT NEW LEADERSHIP
North Korea will hold only the third-ever meeting of its ruling party in September, the clearest sign yet that the hermit nation is preparing for a transfer of power.
David Eimer
The Telegraph, June 26, 2010
Saturday's announcement that the Political Bureau of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) would gather to elect a new leadership follows an intense period of political jockeying in the secretive state. Ailing leader Kim Jong-il is desperate to ensure that his son Kim Jong-un is anointed as his successor.
It was at the last meeting of the WPK in 1980 that Kim Jong-il was made his father's official successor, when he was elected as a standing member of the Political Bureau. Analysts in South Korea are speculating that the September session will result in Kim Jong-un being elevated in the party hierarchy.
"There is a great possibility that Kim Jong-un will be assigned to a high-ranked position in the Political Bureau during the convention," said Koh Yu-hwan, an expert on North Korea at Seoul's Dongguk University.
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