KPA promotions announced

According to Yonhap:

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Wednesday carried out the second biggest promotion of generals since he took power, official media reported, as the country geared up to mark the birthday of his late father and North Korea’s founder.

Kim issued an order promoting a group of 100 general-grade officers “on the occasion of the Day of the Sun,” the birthday of his father, Kim Il-sung, which falls on Thursday, the Korean Central News Agency said in a report monitored in Seoul.

The promotion was the biggest in scale since 1997 when Kim Jong-il raised the ranks of 129 generals in an apparent bid to consolidate his grip on the military after he took over the regime from his father, who died four years earlier.

Gen. U Tong-chuk, a senior official at the North’s spy agency and a member of the National Defense Commission, the highest seat of power, stood out as he had already been promoted in April last year.

Mike has more on Gen. U Tong-chuk

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N. Korea conducts sweeping military promotion ahead of founder’s birthday
Yonhap
Sam Kim
4/14/2010

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