朝鮮更換強硬派國防部長

North Korea has replaced its hard-line defense chief with a little-known army general.

Although no official announcement was made, a news report from the official Korean Central News Agency named Jang Jong Nam as among the party officials attending an art performance with leader Kim Jong Un. He was identified as the minister of the People's Armed Forces.

He replaces hawkish General Kim Kyok Sik, who is believed responsible for the 2010 shelling of a South Korean border island that killed four people.

The change comes as the Korean peninsula is emerging from a period of heightened military tensions that followed the North's nuclear test in February.朝鮮用一個鮮爲人知的陸軍將軍張政男取代強硬派的國防部長金格植。

雖然朝鮮沒有正式宣佈，但是朝鮮官方的中央通訊社說，張政男陪同朝鮮領導人金正恩一同觀看一個文藝演出。報道稱張政男是人民武裝部長。

張政男取代了強硬派的金格植。據信，金格植是2010年朝鮮炮擊韓國前線島嶼延坪島，造成4人死亡事件的幕後主導人物。

朝鮮國防部長易人，正值朝鮮半島從因朝鮮2月進行核試驗而加劇的軍事緊張關係中走出來的時候。