crisis scenarios
Internal Security and IC Changes
Two major organizational changes to North Korea’s (DPRK) intelligence community and internal security agencies have either begun or in an early phase. The Ministry of State Security has been renamed the National Intelligence Agency […]
Bodyguard Personnel Changes
The commanders of the Central Committee Guard Department, Guard Department and Guard Command have changed during the last year. The changes were publicized during the 10 October 2025 military parade commemorating the foundation of the […]
Political Bureau Meeting Held
A meeting of the Korean Workers’ Party [KWP] Political Bureau was held on 28 February (Friday). Attending the meeting were members and alternate (candidate) members of the Political Bureau, along with senior cadres of the […]
KJU Visits Ku’msusan on KJI’s B-Day
KJU’s last observed public event was his attendance at a concert in Samjiyo’n Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n), along with select members of the Korean Workers’ Party [KWP] Political Bureau visited Ku’msusan Memorial Palace of […]
DPRK Conducts 6th Nuclear Test
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 […]
KPA Southwestern Command Issues Statement on 5th Anniversary of YP-do
The Korean People’s Army [KPA] Southwestern Command issued a statement on November 22, 2015 “in connection with the fact that the south Korean military warmongers are running a high fever in their sinister military provocation.” […]
NK War Strategy Focuses on Seoul
JoongAng Daily citing an anonymous “military source” reports that the country revised its contingency planning on an invasion of Seoul or moving further South, and wait to negotiate. “North Korea would try to occupy Seoul […]
