{"id":43609,"date":"2020-01-23T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=43609"},"modified":"2020-01-22T21:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:00:35","slug":"ryanggang-province-top-party-official-replaced-due-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/ryanggang-province-top-party-official-replaced-due-old-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanggang Province&#8217;s top party official replaced due to old age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The chief secretary of Ryanggang Province&#8217;s Workers\u2019 Party of Korea (WPK) committee was recently replaced in what some view as part of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s efforts to bring \u201cgenerational change\u201d to key leadership positions in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ri Sang Won, the former chairman of the provincial committee, was replaced by Kim Yong Hwan in \u201cgreat haste,\u201d according to Daily NK sources in Ryanggang Province on Dec. 12.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cProvincial committee insiders say that he was replaced because of old age,\u201d one of the sources said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ri is now the head of the State Inspection Commission, North Korea\u2019s state prosecutors\u2019 agency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The replacement follows Kim Jong Un\u2019s announcement of sweeping personnel changes in many areas of the country\u2019s leadership on the second day of a year-end WPK plenary session held from Dec. 28 to Dec. 31.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in 1951, Ri Sang Won was a member of the 13th and 14th Supreme People\u2019s Assembly. Ri is one generation younger than former State Inspection Commission Cho Yon Jun, who was born in 1937. Given that Cho and other State Inspection Commission directors such as Kim Kuk-tae (born in 1928) have been part of the country\u2019s older generation, Ri\u2019s move to the central government is likely part of a broader personnel change based on age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ri\u2019s successor, Kim Yong Hwan, was previously appointed as the first deputy director of the Central Court in February, 1997, and is currently a member of the WPK\u2019s Inspection Commission, according to the South Korean Ministry of Unification\u2019s North Korea Information Portal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRyanggang Province is on the border with China so smuggling is rampant. Ri, however, never got entangled in any of the smuggling incidents that occurred in the province and even did his part to ensure the Samjiyon construction project went smoothly,\u201d a source told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany members of the North Korean leadership thought he was good at his job and many people in Ryanggang Province view him being called to serve the central government in Pyongyang favorably,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK sources in Ryanggang Province pointed out, however, that he was likely considered too old for the position of chief secretary of the provincial party committee given he is in his 70s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNorth Korea\u2019s leadership thought that despite his hard work, he was just too old to effectively implement the Supreme Leader [Kim Jong Un]\u2019s vision,\u201d explained the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources in the province also noted that very little is known about the new provincial party chief secretary, Kim Yong Hwan.<\/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<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%EC%96%91%EA%B0%95%EB%8F%84%EB%8B%B9%EC%9C%84%EC%9B%90%EC%9E%A5-%EB%A6%AC%EC%83%81%EC%9B%90-%EA%B5%90%EC%B2%B4%EC%97%90-%EB%8B%B9%EC%9D%84-%EC%9C%84%ED%95%B4-%EC%95%A0%EC%8D%A8%EB%8F%84\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief secretary of Ryanggang Province&#8217;s Workers\u2019 Party of Korea (WPK) committee was recently replaced in what some view as part of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s efforts to bring \u201cgenerational change\u201d to key leadership positions in the country.\u00a0 Ri Sang Won, the former chairman of the provincial committee, was replaced by Kim Yong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":43389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,681],"tags":[165,271,683],"class_list":["post-43609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","tag-samjiyon","tag-ryanggang-province","tag-provincial-party-committee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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