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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

N.Korea's Kim & Son ..[ 1838 ]

Kim and Son Appear at N. Korean Military Exercise

By MARK McDONALD., The New York Times,mPublished: October 5, 2010
SEOUL, South Korea — The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, appeared at a live-fire military exercise with his youngest son and heir apparent in what appeared to be the first public sighting of Kim Jong-un since he was given the rank of four-star general at a landmark Workers’ Party conclave last week. 


The North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday that the two Kims were joined by other members of their family and senior officials in the newly reshuffled North Korean leadership. The location and date of the drill were not specified in the agency’s announcement.
But it was significant, according to analysts in Seoul, that the first public appearance of the younger Mr. Kim came at a military event, as the regime tries to create the image of him as a capable military man. The event also was likely to reinforce his father’s guiding philosophy of songun, or military first.
Kim Jong-un, who is believed to be 27 or 28, was joined at the drill by Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho, the chief of the army general staff, K.C.N.A. said. Both men were appointed last week as deputy chairmen of the party’s military commission, and analysts expect Mr. Ri, 67, to tutor the inexperienced Mr. Kim on military and political matters as he prepares to eventually succeed his father.
The K.C.N.A. report said when the elder Mr. Kim signaled for the live-fire drill to begin, “various ground guns showed powerful fire while units moved in close harmony to annihilate enemies.”
Also watching the military exercise were two other members of Kim Jong-il’s ruling inner circle — his sister, Kim Kyong-hui, who also was made a four-star general last week, and her husband, Jang Song-taek, long rumored to be effectively in charge of the daily running of the government.
It was unclear if the military exercises were part of the preparations for a nationwide celebration of the 65th founding of the Workers’ Party. The anniversary on Oct. 10 is a major annual holiday in North Korea and usually features food giveaways by the government and a huge military parade in the capital, Pyongyang.
The South Korean Defense Ministry also said on Tuesday that the North seems to be preparing a large set of war games involving army, air force and naval units. Those exercises are expected to be held at sea, off North Korea’s eastern coast.
In a separate K.C.N.A. report, North Korea assailed the “ceaseless war exercises being staged by the U.S. imperialists” against the North “in league with the South Korean war hawks.” The United Sates and Seoul recently concluded five days of anti-submarine drills off the South Korean coast. Such moves, the statement said, would only heighten tensions between the two Koreas and that the United States was an “arch-criminal” that wanted to “spark off a war on the Korean Peninsula.”
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