Is this really a “gesture of confidence,” or an indication of a regime on thin ice?

When leadership is in confident control, they select the best people to fill each post. When a leader lacks both popular and political security, he or she may resort to appointing family members, trying to stifle the media, and making boastful statements to bolster their fragile egos. 

I think we all agree that Kin Jong Un is unfit to be POTNK (President of the North Korea).