Central Military Committee
Jang Song Taek to Visit PRC this Weekend?
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 […]
Footsteps and Insteps
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 […]
Jong Un Trial Balloon to Beijing (Or a stalking horse to Jilin?)
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 […]
KCI opens KPA Sports Complex
Kim Cho’ng-il presided over the official opening of the 10,000 square meter (approximately 107, 600 square feet). DPRK media reported KCI’s attendance at the opening ceremony on 4 May [Wednesday], but neither disclosed when the […]
KPA’s 79th
On Sunday and Monday [24 and 25 April] the DPRK commemorated the 79th birthday of the Korean People’s Army [KPA]. KCNA published a statement about the anniversary and its “invincible army”: The Korean people are […]
12th SPA’s 4th Session Elects New NDC Member, MPS
The 4th session (plenum) of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly [SPA] convened Thursday [7 April] at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang. Neither Kim Cho’ng-il nor Kim Cho’ng-u’n attended the meeting. Defying the speculative pronouncements […]
12th SPA to convene 4th session on 7 April
On 18 March 2011 KCNA reported that it was publicized on 15 March that “the fourth session of the 12th SPA [Supreme People’s Assembly] of the DPRK will be held in Pyongyang on 7 April […]
