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N. Korea parliament session ends without Kim Jong Un promotion+
PYONGYANG/BEIJING, April 8 Kyodo -
Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's third son and heir apparent, apparently was not elected as a member of the National Defense Commission at a parliamentary session Thursday, despite having been tipped for a key post by analysts, official reports showed.
It was immediately unknown why Kim Jong Un did not get the post of first vice chairman or simply vice chairman of the defense commission, North Korea's powerful leadership organ headed by Kim Jong Il, which would have cemented his position as the country's effective No. 2 leader.
Some North Korean watchers speculate the move underlines the fact that the country has been carefully orchestrating the father-to-son succession process.
The official Korean Central News Agency reported that the one-day gathering of the Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang deliberated the government's work last year, its tasks for 2011, the state budget and organizational matters.
But it did not mention whether leader Kim or his 28-year-old son attended the session, nor did it include the younger Kim in its mention of appointments.
KCNA reported Wednesday that leader Kim and the younger Kim, a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, had visited two major industrial establishments in Jagang Province, a sign that the two may have been outside Pyongyang on Thursday.
At Thursday's parliamentary session, Ri Myong Su, director of the Administrative Department of the National Defense Commission, was appointed to the people's security minister, according to KCNA.
Jon Pyong Ho was recalled as a member of the defense commission ''due to the transfer to other post'' and Pak To Chun, a secretary of the party's Central Committee, was elected to fill the vacancy.
Vice Premier Ri Thae Nam was relieved of his post due to a health reason.
In 2011, state revenue is expected to grow 7.5 percent from a year earlier, and state expenditures are likely to increase 8.9 percent, KCNA said, without showing actual figures.
National defense accounts for 15.8 percent of expenditures for 2011, the same ratio as last year, it said.
Analysts had been closely watching whether Kim Jong Un would join the defense commission at the parliamentary session because he already has key posts at the party and the Korean People's Army.
At the previous session of the assembly in June last year, Jang Song Thaek, the brother-in-law of Kim Jong Il, was elected to one of the defense commission's several vice chairmanships.
Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's third son and heir apparent, apparently was not elected as a member of the National Defense Commission at a parliamentary session Thursday, despite having been tipped for a key post by analysts, official reports showed.
It was immediately unknown why Kim Jong Un did not get the post of first vice chairman or simply vice chairman of the defense commission, North Korea's powerful leadership organ headed by Kim Jong Il, which would have cemented his position as the country's effective No. 2 leader.
Some North Korean watchers speculate the move underlines the fact that the country has been carefully orchestrating the father-to-son succession process.
The official Korean Central News Agency reported that the one-day gathering of the Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang deliberated the government's work last year, its tasks for 2011, the state budget and organizational matters.
But it did not mention whether leader Kim or his 28-year-old son attended the session, nor did it include the younger Kim in its mention of appointments.
KCNA reported Wednesday that leader Kim and the younger Kim, a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, had visited two major industrial establishments in Jagang Province, a sign that the two may have been outside Pyongyang on Thursday.
At Thursday's parliamentary session, Ri Myong Su, director of the Administrative Department of the National Defense Commission, was appointed to the people's security minister, according to KCNA.
Jon Pyong Ho was recalled as a member of the defense commission ''due to the transfer to other post'' and Pak To Chun, a secretary of the party's Central Committee, was elected to fill the vacancy.
Vice Premier Ri Thae Nam was relieved of his post due to a health reason.
In 2011, state revenue is expected to grow 7.5 percent from a year earlier, and state expenditures are likely to increase 8.9 percent, KCNA said, without showing actual figures.
National defense accounts for 15.8 percent of expenditures for 2011, the same ratio as last year, it said.
Analysts had been closely watching whether Kim Jong Un would join the defense commission at the parliamentary session because he already has key posts at the party and the Korean People's Army.
At the previous session of the assembly in June last year, Jang Song Thaek, the brother-in-law of Kim Jong Il, was elected to one of the defense commission's several vice chairmanships.
