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Kim Jong-un convenes meeting to discuss discipline among Army officials
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IANS | 25 Feb, 2021
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has presided over a Central Military
Commission meeting to discuss the discipline among the military
officials and stricter control over the younger officers, state media
reported on Thursday.
At the expanded military commission meeting
of the ruling Workers' Party on Wednesday, Kim stressed on the
importance of establishing "revolutionary moral discipline" particularly
among the younger generation in the Army, according to the Korean
Central News Agency.
"To establish the revolutionary moral
discipline within the KPA is not just a technical issue, but a fatal
issue related to the existence of the KPA and success or failure in the
army building and military activities," Kim said, referring to the
People's Army, Yonhap reported.
Kim also called for intensified
education and control to ensure that the commanding officers of the "new
generation have the proper political consciousness and moral point of
view."
The meeting also saw a discussion of "a series of
shortcomings revealed in the military and political activities and moral
life of KPA commanding officers."
Kim's criticism appears aimed
at tightening discipline among military officers amid challenges from
global sanctions and the country's prolonged fight against the global
pandemic.
Several major commanding officers were dismissed or
appointed at the meeting, reflecting an apparent generational change in
the organisation.
Kim Song-gi was appointed as the Commander of
the North's Navy, while Kim Chung-il was appointed the Commander of the
Aviation Force.
The tile of the Vice Marshal was also conferred
on Defence Minister Kim Jong-gwan and Kwon Yong-jin, Director of the
General Political Bureau of the North Korean Army.
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