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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam N.Korea lawmakers to meet amid rising tensions AFP - 16 minutes ago Send IM Story Print SEOUL (AFP) - – North Korea's parliament was to hold a rare second annual session Monday amid growing tensions with South Korea, as Seoul pushed for UN condemnation of its neighbour over the sinking of a warship. The legislators could announce top-level personnel changes in preparation for a leadership succession or issue a tough response to the South's charges that the North torpedoed one of its corvettes, an analyst said. It will be the first time since 2003 that the hardline state has summoned its rubber-stamp Supreme People's Assembly twice in a year. South Korea announced Friday it has referred the attack to the UN Security Council, after investigators from five countries said last month that a North Korean submarine sank the warship Cheonan in March with the loss of 46 lives. The UN move sparked a furious response from the North, which has warned that the crisis could trigger all-out war. "The South Korean puppets will never avoid a stern punishment by our military and people... if they continue the smear campaign against the DPRK (North Korea)," it said Sunday. Seoul's ally Washington strongly supports the UN move, but China and Russia -- both veto-wielding council members -- have not stated their position. Related article: NKorea lashes out at UN drive over warship Vice Foreign Minister Chun Yung-Woo will visit China for two days from Tuesday to try to secure its support, Seoul's foreign ministry said. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates told an Asian security forum Saturday that his country "is assessing additional options to hold North Korea accountable". He warned of possible new provocations but admitted in a BBC interview that ways to change the North's behaviour are limited. Gates said Friday that joint US-South Korean naval exercises may be put off to allow more time for UN diplomacy, but the North still blasted the planned drill. Ruling communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun called them a rehearsal for nuclear war that would be met with "merciless retaliation". Replacement of members of the country's National Defence Commission (NDC) -- the top decision-making body, chaired by leader Kim Jong-Il -- would be a major agenda item for legislators Monday, said Kim Yong-Hyun, a North Korean expert at Seoul's Dongguk University. "It could be seen as part of preparations for the father-to-son power succession in which the NDC plays a pivotal role," Kim told AFP. Leader Kim, aged 68 and reportedly ailing, is widely believed to be preparing for an eventual power transfer to his youngest son Jong-Un. In an unusual announcement last month, the North said it had relieved NDC member Kim Il-Chol, 80, of his duties because of his age. "There are more NDC members in their eighties and they could be replaced by younger ones when the Supreme People's Assembly convenes this time," said Dongguk University's Kim. At least three of the 12 members are in their eighties including vice-chairman Jo Myong-Rok, he said. Parliament is also likely to issue a statement reaffirming that Pyongyang had nothing to do with the sinking of the warship, the professor said. The legislators may discuss concrete measures to develop a port and free trade zone at Rason or the border city of Sinuiju as a follow-up to leader Kim's trip to China last month, Kim said. "But such economic issues will likely remain marginal," he added. This year's first session in April focused on reviving the ailing economy. Kim's eldest son Jong-Nam was meanwhile in the limelight, with Seoul's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper carrying a snatched interview with him at a hotel in Macau. Jong-Nam declined knowledge of the warship incident, it reported, and said his father is "doing well". The eldest son is thought to have wrecked any prospects he had of taking over after his arrest in Japan in 2001 for travelling on a fake passport. 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