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By Lee Jong-Heon, EastAsiaIntel.com
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has strengthened his power base at home since the dramatic purge of his uncle Jang Song-Thaek a year ago, officials here say.
But Kim has yet to have his first meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping who has instead met several times with the president of South Korea in a bitter slap at Pyongyang.
By ordering Jang’s execution, Kim has placed his country’s critical relations with China at risk, the sources said.
“The (South Korean) government judges Kim’s power to have been strengthened over the past one year (since Jang’s execution),” a senior South Korean government official said.
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