Top North Korean military official Choe Ryong-hae, who had been banished to a collective farm, appears to have been reinstated.
 
Choe's name was placed sixth in a state funeral committee list for Workers’ Party Secretary Kim Yang-gon, who was reported to have passed away on Tuesday.
 
The North’s Korean Central News Agency reported the list Wednesday, placing Choe's name between Workers' Party secretaries Kim Ki-nam and Choe Thae-bok.
 
Won Dong-yon, the deputy head of the United Front Department of the Workers' Party, which manages relations with South Korea, was also included in the funeral committee. There had been previous talk that Won had been purged.