The Workers’ Party of Korea [WPK] Munitions Industry Department [MID] tested a hypersonic missile on the morning of 5 January (Wednesday). According to DPRK state media, the “successive test successes in the sector of hypersonic […]
Choe Sang Gon appears to have been appointed director of the Central Committee’s Science and Education Department [SED], replacing Choe Myong Tong. Since the beginning of October, Choe has attended three science-related events identified by […]
Midnight Parade Many questions and theories have circulated about why the Party 75th Anniversary Parade began at midnight. North Korea decided to produce and package the parade into an excellent television event. Having the […]
Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n) attended and presided over the 19th meeting of the Political Bureau of the 7th Korean Workers’ Party [KWP] Central Committee on 5 October (Monday). Among those sitting around the giant […]
A preparatory meeting held in advance of the 5th meeting of the Korean Workers’ Party [KWP] Central Military Commission occurred via teleconference on 23 June (Tuesday). Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n) presided over the meeting, […]
DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Son Gwon (Ri So’n-kwon) issued a statement on DPRK-US relations on 12 June (Friday) to mark the two-year anniversary of the Singapore Summit: Two annual rings were run since the […]
Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n) chaired an expanded meeting of the Korean Workers’ Party [KWP] Central Military Commission [CMC] in Pyonyang on 23 May (Saturday). The meeting occurred “at a stirring time when the entire […]