Pyongyang sees major power change

Relations with neighbors will be unaffected despite removal of leader's uncle

The purge of the powerful uncle of Pyongyang's top leader will not shake up the regional situation nor immediately affect the country's ties with Beijing, analysts said on Monday.

Jang Song-thaek, widely reported as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's second in command, was removed from all of his posts and from the ruling Workers' Party of Korea for his "anti-Party and counterrevolutionary crime", the country's official news agency KCNA said.