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DPRK Contends with Foot-and-Mouth
The DPRK is dealing with its first reported outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease since 2007. The DPRK banned ROK pork and beef shipments into Kaesong Industrial Complex in late December, as well as ROK poultry in […]
The Center’s First Appearances in 2011
Kim Chong-il has made his first public appearances of 2011. On 12 January (Wednesday) the DPRK media reported that he toured the recently constructed Nampo Glass Bottle Factory. On 14 January (Friday) KCNA reported that […]
DPRK Changes Agriculture Minister
Yi Kyong-sik has replaced Kim Chang-sik as Minister of Agriculture, Kyodo News Service reported last week. Yi penned an article about the country’s desire to boost agricultural production in Rodong Sinmun and was identified in […]
Choe Tae Bok Returns from PRC
Choe Tae-pok, SPA Chairman CC KWP Secretary and Political Bureau Member, returned to to the DPRK over the weekend, completing his five-day trip to China. Choe departed the DPRK last Tuesday (30 November) for Beijing. […]
DPRK Premier Goes to China
DPRK Choe Yong Rim traveled to northeastern China. Yonhap citing a Chinese newspaper reported that Choe arrived with delelgation in Harbin “earlier this week” and toured Changchun on Wednesday. Xinhua reports that Choe met with […]
New DPRK Ambassador to China Arrives in Beijing
The PRC Foreign Ministry announced that Ji Jae Ryong, the DPRK’s new ambassador to China, arrived in Beijing today (26 October). Ji is tied to Jang Song Taek (NDC Vice Chairman; director of party administration; […]
Jong Un Attends Rally Honoring CPV
Kim Jong Il presided over a “mass meeting” held at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the CPV’s (Chinese People’s Volunteers) entry into the Korean War (also known as the Fatherland […]
