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Jang purge shows North power base is unstable
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Nearly two years ago, the seven elders of the North Korean regime marched with Jong Un alongside his father’s hearse in Pyongyang.
Kim has lost decades of accumulated experience and troubleshooting ability embodied by Jang and the others who are no longer on the scene.
The Japan Timesのある記事の一部です。
The Japan Timesのある記事の一部です
次の英文は１２月１６日付けThe Japan Timesの１面の（６面に続く）記事の一部です。Butで始まる英文の意味がとれません。
Nearly two years ago, the seven elders of the North Korean regime marched with Jong Un alongside his father’s hearse in Pyongyang. The funeral on Dec. 28, 2011, was a powerful symbol of continuity as the untested new supremo took over a nuclear-armed country that was frozen in decades of economic and diplomatic isolation.
But through instead of presiding over what South Korean President Park Geun-hye last week called a “reign of terror” — one that Japan fears could presage a long period of chaos — Kim has lost decades of accumulated experience and troubleshooting ability embodied by Jang and the others who are no longer on the scene.
(http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/15/asia-pacific/jang-purge-shows-north-power-base-is-unstable/#.UrBi8pOCjIU）
AFPによる他紙の英文はこの部分：
But through instead of presiding over what South Korean President Park Geun-hye last week called a “reign of terror” — one that Japan fears could presage a long period of chaos —
は次のようになっているようです。
But in presiding over what South Korean President Park Geun-hye last week called a “reign of terror” — one that Japan fears could presage a long period of chaos —
これなら私にも意味は取れるのですが。
The Ｊapan Timesの件の英文（But through instead of presiding over what …）はどのように解釈すれば意味がとれるのでしょうか。それとも単なる誤植なのでしょうか。
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