N Korea sets up new post under Kim: report Reuters, SEOUL North Korea’s ruling party has amended its rules to create a de facto second-in-command under leader Kim Jong-un, as he looks to revamp domestic politics, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said yesterday. Citing an unidentified source familiar with North Korea, the agency said the holder of the new post of “first secretary” would chair meetings on behalf of Kim. Kim cemented his power at a congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea in January, when he was elected its general secretary, taking a title last held by his late father, Kim Jong-il.