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                  North Korea Changes Hard-Line Defense Chief

   North Korea has replaced its hard-line defense chief with a
   little-known army general.
   Although no official announcement was made, a news report from the
   official Korean Central News Agency named Jang Jong Nam as one of the
   audience members at an art performance. He was identified as the
   minister of the People`s Armed Forces.
   He replaces hawkish General Kim Kyok Sik, who is believed responsible
   for the 2010 shelling of a South Korean border island that killed four
   people.
   The change comes as the Korean peninsula is emerging from a period of
   heightened military tensions that followed the North`s nuclear test in
   February.
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