Kim Kyok Sik (right) with the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in a 2007 file photo released by Korean Central News Agency. NPR
Hawkish General Makes Comeback As North Korea's Military Chief -- Reuters
(Reuters) - North Korea has reappointed a hardline and loyal general as military chief in a move experts said was part of young leader Kim Jong-un's attempt to tighten his grip on the armed forces.
Kim Kyok-sik, widely believed to have been behind the shelling of a South Korean island in 2010 that killed four people, was named "chief of the KPA (Korean People's Army) General Staff" by state news agency KCNA in a report on Wednesday.
The four-star general, in his 70s, held that position for two years until 2009.
The 30-year-old Kim Jong-un, the third of his family to rule North Korea, has been reshuffling the military in an attempt to stamp his power on the army after formally assuming power a year ago.
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