Kim Jong Un meets with senior officials the new situation and circumstances prevailing on the Korean Peninsula and in its vicinity” (Photo: Rodong Sinmun)
DPRK state media reported that Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n) convened and attended a meeting of national security officials concerning “the grave situation prevailing in the DPRK.” KJU’s last reported public appearance was his visit to the construction of Taeso’ng General Hospital. Attending the meeting were Gen. Choe Ryong Hae (Director of the Korean People’s Army [KPA] General Political Department, Gen. Hyon Yong Chol (Chief of the KPA General Staff) , Pak To Chun (Korean Workers’ Party [KWP] Secretary), Kim Yong Il (KWP Secretary), Hong Sung Mu (KWP Central Committee Department Deputy [vice] Director) and Kim Kye Gwan, 1st Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs). During a meeting after Kim Jong Un was briefed about “the new situation and circumstances prevailing on the Korean Peninsula and in its vicinity” he “expressed the firm resolution to take substantial and high-profile important state measures in view of the prevailing situation as the stand had already been clarified by the National Defence Commission and the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK through their statements that powerful physical countermeasures would be taken to defend the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty of the country. He advanced specific tasks to the officials concerned.”
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