North Korea
N.K. leader given new state title at key parliamentary meeting
June 30, 2016
North Korea's parliament on Wednesday bestowed a new state title upon the North's leader Kim Jong-un, Pyongyang's state media said, in a move aimed at helping bolster his one-man rule.The Supreme People's Assembly, the country's rubber-stamp parliament, decided to appoint the North's leader as the chairman of a newly-created state apparatus, tentatively named the commission on state affairs, according to the North's state TV broadcaster. (Yonhap)The assembly was held in a follow-up to the congre