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 […]
Yonhap reports that Choe Ryong Hae [Ch’oe Ryong-hae] was appointed director of the Workers’ Party of Korea [WPK] Organization Guidance Department [OGD] (officially called the Organizational Leadership Department) during the October 2017 plenary meeting of […]
The DPRK conducted its sixth nuclear test at (NKST) on September 3 (Sunday). According to the Nuclear Weapons Institute’s report: Scientists in the nuclear field of the DPRK successfully carried out a test of H-bomb […]
When a train crossed the DPRK-PRC border on 26 May, the occupant was said to be Kim Cho’ng-u’n. Pyongyang watchers widely anticipated the hereditary successor’s sojourn to the PRC in 2011, similar to Kim Cho’ng-il’s […]
Chang So’ng-t’aek (Jang Song Taek) will reportedly visit cities in and around Jilin Province, PRC, on Saturday [21 May]. If this trip occurs, it would be Chang’s first reported trip to the PRC since Kim […]
Has Kim Cho’ng-il changed his shoes? Around 12 May [Thursday] Kim Cho’ng-il was reported to have visited Kujang Fish Farm. Yonhap reports on the photograph released of his visit: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il […]
2010 was the year Pyongyang watchers waited for Kim Cho’ng-il to travel to China. KCI managed to live up to the hype, as news photographers staked out his private train. When the media veil under […]