North Korea’s ruling communist party has now appointed an official deputy. Workers’ Party of Korea’s (WKP) rules show a new position of first secretary has been created, with the powers to govern the country if the leader is incapacitated.
NK News, which monitors the secretive state, concludes the North Korean leadership has “begun to make preparations for the sudden death or, more likely, long-term incapacitation of North Korea’s current leader”.
The publication argues: “This decision probably indicates that Kim’s health is not good.”
Kim Jong-un has vanished from public view a number of times over the past year and a half, sparking speculation about his condition.
The new WKP rules, acquired by NK News, were approved at its eighth party congress in January.
They state the first secretary is deputy to the general secretary, Kim Jong Un’s position.
This is the first time a potential successor to the North Korean leader has been set out so explicitly.
Article 28 of the new rules strengthens the Politburo Permanent Committee, North Korea’s top executive body.
Any politburo member can now preside over the committee if given permission by the general secretary.
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The state was established by Kim Il-sung, who was succeeded by Kim Jong-il then Kim Jong-un.
Last year, from April to July, Kim Jong-un remained away from public view for almost three months.
This included missing his grandfather Kim Il-sung’s birthday celebrations on April 15, an important national day.
From May this year he also disappeared from public view for 29 days, before being pictured at a politburo meeting.
Food prices in North Korea have surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, as the border with China has been firmly closed.
According to NK News it now costs £32 to buy a kilogram of bananas in the country.
Addressing senior party leaders Kim Jong-un admitted: “The people’s food situation is now getting tense.”
Many North Koreans had relied on food illegally smuggled across the Chinese border.
The hermit state was also struck by devastating typhoons last year, which triggered widespread flooding.
North Korea was formed from the part of Korea occupied by Soviet forces at the end of WWII.
A brutal dictatorship, it has technically been at war with South Korea since 1950.
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2021-06-17 21:49:00Z
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