DPRK External Relations
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 […]
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 […]
Does KCI Have a Personal Reason for Not Meeting Carter?
Former US President Jimmy Carter visited and toured the DPRK, along a with part of a group of former world leaders called the Elders, during 26 to 28 April 2011. The group visited locales in […]
DPRK Ambassador Attends William-Catherine Nuptials
DPRK Ambassador to Great Britain, Cha So’ng-nam [Ja Song Nam] attended the 29 April [Friday] wedding ceremony of Prince William to Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey. Cha was one of the approximately 1,900 invited guests […]
If I Were a Cadre and You Were a Lathe Machine Operator
DPRK media reported on 23 April that Kim Cho’ng-il made his first reported visit to the Najin Shipyard. Yonhap reports: Kim “provided field guidance to the Rajin Shipyard” in the North’s northeastern port of Rajin, […]
New FMD Outbreak
According to the DPRK government’s own reporting to international organizations, the country saw new cases of foot-and-mouth disease [FMD] in late Febraury and March. Yonhap reports: A new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) occurred in […]
People’s Security Minister Meets VN Counterpart
Minister of People’s Security, Yi Myo’ng-su [Ri Myong Su], has discharged one of his first public acts since his appointment to the position at the SPA on 7 April. Yi was reported by DPRK media […]
