Ri Yong Gil when he served as Director of the General Staff Operations Bureau in 2013. Also pictured is General Hyon Yong Chol (right), former Chief of the KPA General Staff and former Minister of the People’s Armed Forces, and General Kim Rak Gyom (left), commander of the KPA Strategic Force. Of these three senior members of the DPRK national security community, only Gen. Kim Rak Gyom remains in office (Photo: NK Leadership Watch file photo/KCNA).