North Korea has replaced its armed forces minister, as the supreme leader Kim Jong-eun continues one of the most intensive reshuffles of top-level personnel in the country’s history.
Kim Kyok-sik, the outgoing minister, was appointed to the position last November. He previously commanded an army corps near the inter-Korean border, and is widely believed to have played a role in the 2010 shelling of a South Korean island which killed four people.
He has been replaced by Jang Jong-nam, a general who also previously commanded a forward-deployed army corps, but is relatively little known to foreign analysts.
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