Changes. North Korea’s Workers’ Party reshuffled its senior leadership at a congress in Pyongyang this week. Left out of key positions were a number of powerful officials, considered part of the country’s “old guard,” such as former intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol and the party’s longtime economic overseer, O Su Yong. However, many close aides […]
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Daily Memo: North Korea Launches Party Congress
A number of Pyongyang's "old guard" have been replaced.




