{"id":43374,"date":"2020-01-09T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=43374"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:09:44","slug":"kim-yo-jong-continues-expand-authority-military-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/kim-yo-jong-continues-expand-authority-military-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Yo Jong continues to expand authority over military affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, reportedly gave orders to the entire North Korean military in her capacity as deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea (WPK).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cComrade Kim Yo Jong issued an order entitled \u2018Regarding the Improvement of the Korean People\u2019s Army\u2019s Logistics and Supply Chain&#8217; to each branch of the military on Dec. 26,\u201d a military source from North Hwanghae Province told Daily NK on Dec. 31.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This order follows an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/kim-yo-jong-makes-first-direct-order-north-korean-military\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">earlier directive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> concerning \u201cthe working conditions and health of female soldiers\u201d that Kim handed down on Dec. 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IMPROVING THE MILITARY\u2019S LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim\u2019s recent order to the entire military appears to be part of an attempt to position herself as the \u201csecond highest-ranking successor in the Mount Paektu lineage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the order, Kim emphasized the importance of the military\u2019s logistics system and proposed specific plans to improve the military\u2019s supply chain, sources said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim reportedly noted in the order that the improvement of logistics is the \u201cpath to strengthen military power.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43233\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43233 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/44240182715_defd681331_b.jpg\" alt=\"kim yo jong\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/44240182715_defd681331_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/44240182715_defd681331_b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/44240182715_defd681331_b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/44240182715_defd681331_b-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/44240182715_defd681331_b-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Yo Jong at a meeting with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in 2018. \/ Image: US Department of State<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The order also included her thoughts on how to improve the military\u2019s livestock industry. She called on military units to set high meat production goals and spare no effort to accomplish them, according to sources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She specifically ordered that military bases properly cultivate both chicken and pig populations and that \u201cchicken excrement should be used in pig feed,\u201d a source added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources said that this isn\u2019t the first time the North Korean leadership has ordered the military to make pig feed out of eight parts chicken excrement and two parts regular pig feed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SOLDIERS FACE DIFFICULTY MEETING DEMANDS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is also an emerging sense among soldiers that Kim\u2019s orders are \u201cin step with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s love for the soldiery.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soldiers, however, face difficulties in \u201cunconditionally\u201d complying with the orders Kim has handed down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMilitary bases have little choice but to either expand existing chicken coops or build new ones because North Korea\u2019s de facto second-in-command has ordered it,\u201d a source told Daily NK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMilitary bases built rabbit houses this year following orders from the Party to increase rabbit meat production, but now they are overwhelmed by this recent order to build more chicken coops,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, reportedly gave orders to the entire North Korean military in her capacity as deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea (WPK). \u201cComrade Kim Yo Jong issued an order entitled \u2018Regarding the Improvement of the Korean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":43375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,646],"tags":[691],"class_list":["post-43374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-military","tag-military"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - 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