Pak Jong Chon( KNS/ Kyodo) BEIJING( Kyodo)--North Korea has promoted its military chief, a close aide to leader Kim Jong Un, to the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the ruling party, state-run media reported Tuesday.... The member's demotion was apparently over the mishandling of the country's COVID-19 response and efforts to prop up the economy.... In June, Pak was also demoted from the rank of marshal to vice marshal after Kim said a" great crisis" related to the novel coronaviru

politburo's top standing committee. This is unprecedented because the politburo only has five members,

-member Politburo Standing Committee, who could be described as princelings.... Never had it been so

Workers' Party of Korea politburo on Tuesday and berated some party executives' neglect of duty

take over the general secretary’s duties at the Politburo, the Party Central Committee and the

powerful Politburo and a member of the rubber-stamp parliament....

.... The failure to disclose which of the five Politburo members were fired could be to minimise

visit Tokyo from the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the ruling party amid the

porous border with China.... At the Politburo meeting, Kim criticized the senior officials for

the tech sector. The Communist Party's highest decision making body, the Politburo, fixed the month