Not less than yesterday.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un shuffles leadership and consolidates power
In one of the biggest leadership shake-ups in years, North Korea named a new nominal head of state and a new premier, and gave leader Kim Jong Un a new title, state media reported on Friday, moves analysts said solidify Kim’s grip on power.
In an expected move, Kim Jong Un was re-elected as chairman of the State Affairs Commission at a session of North Korea’s rubber-stamp legislature that took place on Thursday, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
For the first time, however, state media referred to Kim as “supreme representative of all the Korean people.” That title was approved by special decree in February, according to the Associated Press, but has not been used publicly until Friday.
It’s unclear whether the changes will be codified in the constitution, but analysts said the shake-up shows Kim has fully come into his own, eight years after he inherited rule from his father, Kim Jong Il.
“The transition and power consolidation of the Kim Jong Un regime is complete,” said Michael Madden, a leadership researcher with 38 North, a website that monitors North Korea.
“This is probably the largest party-government shake-up in many years,” he said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/12/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-shuffles-leadership-and-consolidates-power.html
When reading below article I tend to believe things are improving for the North Korean peoples.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/31/im-the-only-australian-living-in-north-korea-let-me-tell-you-about-it
Swiss set to back tighter gun controls, avoid EU clash: poll
ZURICH (Reuters) - Two of out three Swiss voters support tightening gun controls in line with changes to European Union rules, a poll released on Friday showed, potentially heading off a clash with Brussels.
The restrictions, which apply to non-EU member Switzerland because it is part of Europe's Schengen open-border system, have raised hackles among Swiss shooting enthusiasts ahead of a binding referendum on May 19.
Failure to adopt the rules could force Switzerland to leave the passport-free Schengen zone and the Dublin joint system for handling asylum requests.
After militants killed scores in Paris and elsewhere in 2015, the EU in 2017 toughened laws against purchasing semi-automatic rifles like the ones used in those attacks, and made it easier to track weapons in national databases.
https://news.yahoo.com/swiss-set-back-tighter-gun-controls-avoid-eu-103301846.html?
Top EU court should dismiss Czech bid to loosen gun laws: adviser
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union’s top court should dismiss a Czech challenge to tighter EU controls on firearms introduced after the 2015 Paris attacks, the court’s legal adviser said on Thursday.
The Czech Republic maintains that the tougher European Commission rules, which make it harder for EU citizens to obtain semi-automatic rifles, were unduly restrictive for law-abiding gun-owners such as hunters.
It also says the Commission rules encroached on crime prevention policy, a matter for the national governments of EU member states.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-court-guns/top-eu-court-should-dismiss-czech-bid-to-loosen-gun-laws-adviser-idUSKCN1RN1G5
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