By YOSHIHIRO MAKINO/ Senior Staff Writer
January 5, 2022 at 13:30 JST
An image of Kim Yong Ju is posted by the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, to introduce him as honorary vice chairman of the standing committee of the Supreme People's Assembly. (Taken from the Rodong Sinmun website)
A once top-level North Korean official, whose decades-long disappearance from the radar of overseas intelligence agencies underscored the ruthless power struggles within the Kim regime, has reportedly died. [Read More]
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