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By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com

SEOUL — A group North Korean officials accompanied Kim Jong-Un on his visit to the remote “Revolutionary Battle Site” of Samjiyon where he made a final decision to purge his uncle.

These officials are being viewed as the new core members of the ruling elite, sources and analysts here say.

Kim traveled to Samjyon lake on Mount Paekdu on the border with China on Nov. 30, a week before his powerful uncle Jang Song-Thaek was purged at a meeting of the political bureau of the Workers’ Party on Dec. 8.

The North’s media reported Kim made a pilgrimage to the revolutionary site, a sacred place where his grandfather and national founder Kim Il-Sung was said to have led struggles against Japanese military occupation until the 1945 liberation.

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