North Korea today announced a reshuffle of senior officials just days ahead of a key communist party meeting. The Korea Central News Agency said Kang Sok-Ju, North Korea's first vice-minister of foreign affairs, has been appointed to the position of a vice premier of the Cabinet.Kim Kye-Gwan, Pyongyang's chief negotiator in six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, was named to fill Kang's slot at the foreign ministry while Ri Yong-Ho, Kim's deputy in the nuclear talks, was named a vice foreign minister. The announcement came as North Korea prepares for its biggest political meeting for decades next week, expected to pave the way for a transfer of power to Kim Jong-Il's youngest son, Jong-Un. KCNA earlier said the conference of the ruling communist party for electing its supreme leadership body will take place in Pyongyang on September 28, describing it as a historic meeting. The event had been scheduled for early September but it was postponed without any explanation.