The complete text for the Joint New Year’s Editorial can be found at Northeast Asia Matters. The DPRK media has printed and broadcast the 2011 Joint New Year’s Editorial. The editorial underscores kangsong taeguk and […]
Kim Yong-chun (VMar), NDC Vice Chairman and Minister of the People’s Armed Forces, said that the DPRK and KPA “are fully ready to start a sacred war based on the nuclear deterrent at a time […]
Kim Chong-il made his fourth visit of 2010 to the Huichon Power Station. The visit seems to be part of a seasonal swing through Chagang Province. On 21 December the DPRK media reported that Kim […]
According to the ROK Unification Ministry, Kim Chong-il has made 148 visits in 2010. 58 of those tours were to economic locales in the DPRK. KCI has been reported by the DPRK media as having […]
Choe Tae-pok, CC KWP Secretary and Political Bureau member, will travel to Beijing on Tuesday (30 November) for a five day trip to the PRC. Choe is likely to discuss the DPRK’s 23 November attack […]
The DPRK press reported on 20 November (Saturday) that Kim Jong Il and hereditary successor, Kim Jong Un, attended a commemorative photo session with members of the Korean People’s Internal Security Forces. Chosun Ilbo wrote […]
Satellite imagery shows possible construction activity in Kilchu County, North Hamgyong, near the location of the DPRK’s May 2009 nuclear test. According to a Jane’s analysis of images taken over several days in October 2010, […]