North Korea promotes general to ruling party's powerful presidium - KCNA

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un takes part in the third enlarged meeting of the political bureau of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang, North Korea September 2, 2021 in this image supplied by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on September 3, 2021. KCNA via REUTERS

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has elevated a general long seen as a rising star in the country's powerful military and a major player in its missile programme to a position in the presidium of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) politburo, state media reported on Tuesday.

Pak Jong Chon will also serve as secretary of the WPK Central Committee, KCNA news agency said.