State media later announced the appointment of Kim Jong Un to the Workers' Party Central Committee.
VOA: special.2010.10.02
On January 17th the Labour Party's centralcommittee crushed a motion by Yossi Beilin, a former minister and indefatigable peace negotiator, to secede from the coalition government.
Mr Barak followed up his indecorous declaration on television with a similarly unseemly steamrolling of his Labour Party's CentralCommittee next day to confirm him by acclamation as its leader and candidate for prime minister.