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Seoul, March 24, 2012
N Korea parliament to meet amid rocket launch tensions
PTI
Kim Jong-Un has been proclaimed the
"great successor" but has so far been formally appointed to only one
of the late Kim’s posts, commander-in-chief of the 1.2 million-member military.
North Korea on Saturday said that it
would hold an annual parliamentary session next month around the time of a
planned rocket launch by the nuclear-armed state that has sparked widespread
condemnation.
The meeting of the body will also
take place just two days before deceased founder Kim Il-Sung’s 100th birthday
and will be the first under new leader Kim Jong-Un.
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central
News Agency (KCNA) said the Supreme People’s Assembly would convene on April
13.
The Assembly is constitutionally
able to appoint the chairman of the National Defence Commission, a top military
decision-making body wielding great influence over the highly militarised
communist state.
It remains to be seen whether Kim
Jong-Un, currently serving as vice chairman of the commission, will be promoted
to the commission’s highest post held by his father Kim Jong-Il, who died in
December from a heart attack.
Separately, the North’s ruling
communist party last month said it would convene a rare special conference in
April on an unspecified date in an apparent attempt to wrap up the power
transfer to the new leader.
Kim Jong-Un has been proclaimed the
“great successor” but has so far been formally appointed to only one of the
late Kim’s posts, commander-in-chief of the 1.2 million-member military.
The April party meeting is likely to
appoint Jong-Un to his father’s old posts of party general secretary and chief
of its Central Military Commission, analysts said.
North Korea announced earlier this
month it would launch a rocket in mid-April to put a satellite into orbit to
celebrate the centenary of Kim Il-Sung’s birth -move seen by the United States,
South Korea and other nations as a pretext for a long-range missile test banned
by the UN.
The North on Friday said preparations
“have entered a full-fledged stage of action” and promised unspecified
“counter-measures” against opponents of the operation.
Amid mounting tensions, North
Korea’s main ally China urged that “all parties should keep calm and exercise
restraint”, while a special adviser to US President Barack Obama warned any
launch will generate a “strong response.”
World leaders including Mr. Obama
are meeting in Seoul next week for a summit officially focused on nuclear
terrorism.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
plans to raise the rocket launch at the meeting on Monday and Tuesday.
India seeks relationships
India works with US and Israel to improve military and security
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