State media later announced the appointment of Kim Jong Un to the Workers' Party Central Committee.

VOA: special.2010.10.02

He has sought an appointment with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to brief him about "lack of preparations".

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

But Nye says the choices made by Mikhail Gorbachev following his 1985 appointment as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party hastened the collapse.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03