North Korea Leadership Watch

Research and Analysis on the DPRK Leadership

Disarmament Institute Researcher Publishes Article

KCNA disseminated an article by Ku Yong Chol (Ku Yo’ng-ch’o’l), of the DPRK Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Disarmament and Peace on Saturday (4 March).  Ku wrote: The international community is deeply concerned about the reality […]

Mar, 07

Day Two at the CC Plenum

The second day of the 7th plenary meeting of the 8th Workers’ Party of Korea [WPK] Central Committee took place in central Pyongyang on 27 February (Monday).  Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n; KJU) once again […]

Feb, 28

Gen. O Kuk Ryol (1930-2023)

  Gen. O Kuk Ryol (O Kuk-yo’l), a retired former senior national security official and close adviser and friend of late DPRK leader Kim Jong Il (Kim Cho’ng-il), died of heart failure on the morning […]

Feb, 14

Power Organizations after 6th Plenum of the 8th Central Committee

  Political Bureau    Kim Jong Un  PRES  Choe Ryong Hae    PRES  Jo Yong Won   PRES  Kim Tok Hun    PRES  Ri Pyong Chol   PRES  Ri Il Hwan    FULL  Kim Jae Ryong    FULL  Ri Yong Gil […]

Feb, 10

Pak To Chun (1944-202?)

Pak To Chun (Pak To-ch’un) has passed away.  Rather than a state media announcement about Pak’s death, his demise was disclosed during a KCNA report about the burial of his remains in the Patriotic Martyrs’ […]

Sep, 02

KJU War Event Speech

Esteemed comrade veterans of the Fatherland Liberation War, Comrade lecturers and officials engaged in the administration of revolutionary relics associated with the victorious war, service personnel and students of universities and revolutionary schools present in […]

Jul, 29

Jo Kyong Chol Back on the CMC

Military Security Command [MSC]** Director Jo Kyong Chol (Cho Kyo’ng-ch’o’l) was returned to membership on the Party Central Military Commission [CMC].  Head of the MSC since 2010 and former political director of the KPA Air […]

Jun, 11

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