State media shows NKorea has new military chief

Published May 22, 2013 3:52am ET



PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — A North Korean state media dispatch shows that leader Kim Jong Un has named a hardline general as his new military chief.

The new title for Kim Kyok Sik came in a dispatch Wednesday from the North’s Korean Central News Agency detailing a delegation at Pyongyang’s airport that was seeing off a special envoy on a trip to China. There were no other details on the appointment.

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