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Kim Jong Un tightens grip on power in North Korea

Kim Jong Un waves to North Korean citizens.   © KCNA

SEOUL -- North Korea's parliament on Wednesday appointed Kim Jong Un the head of a freshly minted state affairs committee, local media reported, consolidating even more power into the country's one and only ruler.

The Supreme People's Assembly decided to redesignate the National Defense Commission as a committee for state affairs. It also discussed the implementation of a five-year economic plan decided on at the ruling Workers' Party congress held in May.

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