(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Kim Jung Eun is the North Korean President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and meanwhile the Ceremonial Affairs Leader of the country, since the late founder of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Kim Il Sung is officially introduced as the eternal president of the DPRK, and his grandson, Kim-Il Sung is today the Supreme Leader of the DPRK.
The official DPRK news agency KCNA, reporting the news early Thursday morning reported that the Ceremonial Head of the country and President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Jung Eun will attend the 16th Tehran NAM Summit as a sign of DPRK’s good will and in response to the IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s kind invitation.
Democratic Republic of Korea and Islamic Republic of Iran are both under international sanctions due to their governments’ nuclear programs and both seriously at odds with the United States.
The KCNA also reported that an Iranian delegation visited the DPRK in July, 2012, for political negotiations and consultations on international developments, at the end of whose visit the two sides adopted a shared stand against the western imperialism and its hegemonic approach.
A report that suggested North Korean dictator Kim Jong Eun might travel to Iran lit up the North Korea watch-o-sphere Wednesday.
But it appeared to be a misunderstanding over the role of Kim Yong Nam, the powerful man who has the biggest title in the North’s government and is the second strong man next to the leader from the family of Kim-Il Sung.
The German news agency DPA, citing an Iranian news website Tabnak, got the report going around the word that Kim Jong Eun would be attending the Non-Aligned Movement summit next week in Tehran.
North Korea routinely sends Kim Yong Nam, the 84-year-old president of the Supreme People’s Assembly Presidium, overseas to meet important people.
He went to the last Non-Aligned Movement Summit, which was in Egypt in 2009, and he traveled to Laos and Vietnam earlier this month.
South Korea’s embassy in Tehran, Yonhap reported, learned late Wednesday that Iranian officials said Kim Jong Eun was not going to be at next week’s summit.
On Thursday morning, North Korea’s news agency announced Kim Yong Nam would go to Tehran to take part in the summit and “pay an official goodwill visit.”
That’s a break with KCNA’s usual practice of waiting to announce the travels of its leaders until they’ve arrived at their destination. For years, it wouldn’t say anything about Kim Jong-Il’s overseas trips until he had returned back home — even when those trips were widely reported by media outside the country. KCNA last year broke with that practice when Kim went to Russia.
By revealing that Kim was out of the country, KCNA found a new story to tell, as embodied in this dispatch from August 22nd, 2011: Officials in various fields and servicepersons of the DPRK are greatly excited to hear the news of leader Kim Jong-Il’s visit to Siberia and the Far East region of the Russian Federation and filled with boundless longing and reverence for him.
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