{"id":12349,"date":"2026-05-11T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/12349\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:35:08","slug":"kim-jong-un-granted-powers-that-surpass-predecessors-in-constitution-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/12349\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un granted powers that surpass predecessors in constitution update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tKim Jong Un granted powers that surpass predecessors in constitution update\t<\/p>\n<p>The allocation of power goes far beyond those granted to Kim Il Sung, which could signal a new level of authoritarianism<\/p>\n<p class=\"author-date\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/pro\/content_author\/martin-weiser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Weiser<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\tMay 11, 2026\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img width=\"935\" height=\"500\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kim Jong Un granted powers that surpass predecessors in constitution update\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/KJUSPA-and-former-leaders-statues-935x500.png\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong Un and statues of former leaders at the Supreme People&#8217;s Assembly | KCNA (Aug. 10, 2024 and March 23, 2026), edited by NK Pro<\/p>\n<p>The revisions to North Korean law reported last week introduced changes to the country\u2019s constitution that vastly expands the power of leader Kim Jong Un, even more so than his authoritarian predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>The allocation of power goes far beyond those granted to Kim Il Sung during his reign, which could signal a new level of authoritarianism, whereby Kim Jong Un relies less on the approval from important leadership factions while unilaterally expelling challengers to his authority.<\/p>\n<p>The same trend could also be seen for the premier and head of the Supreme People&#8217;s Assembly\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved.<br \/>No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for<br \/>\n\t\t\tcommercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk<br \/>\n\t\t\tGroup.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un granted powers that surpass predecessors in constitution update The allocation of power goes far beyond&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2993,3151,31,3750,586,9257,34,587],"class_list":["post-12349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-culture","tag-history","tag-korea","tag-leadership","tag-military-affairs","tag-misc","tag-north-korea","tag-wmd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}