The blunders highlight the difficulty of getting reliable information on secretive North Korea. FMTNews
Thae wrote in his memoir that when former leader Kim Jong-il died in 2011, even the foreign minister had no idea until ministry staff were called to watch a state media announcement.
“It’s an issue that even top government agencies cannot know unless they have a ‘Deep Throat’ type of source among those aides,” said Cho, who was also elected to parliament as a member of Ji’s party.
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