Kim’s style of consolidating power seen inviting backlash from party elites

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SEOUL — North Korea’s youthful leader Kim Jong-Un is believed to have suspended the Presidium of the Politburo, the highest-ranking body in the Workers’ Party, officials and sources here say.

From left in 2013 (when Jang Song-Thaek was publicly arrested): President of SPA Presidium Kim Yong Nam, Kim Yang Gon, Kim Jong-Un, and the head of Kim's Bodyguard Service. / KCTV Reuters — From left in 2013 (when Jang Song-Thaek was publicly arrested): President of SPA Presidium Kim Yong Nam, Kim Yang Gon, Kim Jong-Un, and the head of Kim’s Bodyguard Service. / KCTV Reuters

The Presidium has long consisted three or four members — from the Party, the state, the military and the Cabinet.

But since Kim Jong-Un came to power in late 2011, the only consistent members of the Presidium have been Kim Jong-Un and Kim Yong-Nam, the titular head of state.

Choe Ryong-Hae, a Party secretary in charge of social and labor organizations, was dropped from the Presidium of the Party Politburo, according to Seoul’s Unification Ministry.

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