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

VOA: special.2010.10.02

In a nearly 40-minute policy speech, the president cited, among other things, his orders to end any torture of detainees and close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, and the appointment of senior envoy George Mitchell to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

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