DPRK External Relations
NK Ambassador To Switzerland Appointed
Ri Chol’s replacement as DPRK Ambassador to Switzerland has been appointed. So Se Phyong has been appointed as Ri’s replacement in Berne. Ambassador So was previously the country’s ambassador to Iran, appointed in November 2008. […]
Week Two of KJI China Trip Watch
Won Se-hoon, head of the ROK’s NIS, has a new prediction about KJI going to China: Won Se-hoon, head of the National Intelligence Service, was quoted as telling the parliament’s intelligence committee that Kim could […]
Week Two of KJI China Trip Watch
Won Se-hoon, head of the ROK’s NIS, has a new prediction about KJI going to China: Won Se-hoon, head of the National Intelligence Service, was quoted as telling the parliament’s intelligence committee that Kim could […]
KJI Hosts Party for Chinese Ambassador and Women's Volleyball Team
Kim Jong-il hosted a dinner party in Pyongyang for the new Chinese Ambassador, the presumably partied-out Liu Hongcai, embassy staff and the Tianjin women’s volleyball team. Two days of public events in Pyongyang finds […]
Blue House Thinks KJI is Beijing-bound
Yonhap reports that Lee Administration officials are watching for Kim Jong-il to depart for China fairly soon. Another senior official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said that South Korea has “some intelligence, albeit […]
KJI Meets Chinese Ambassador
While Pyongyang watchers waited for Kim Jong-il to go to China, KJI brought China to him. The General-Secretary completed the recent parade of core leadership to greet the new PRC Ambassador to the DPRK. He […]
Have you seen your Suryongni’mui traveling in the shadow?
While the recovery mission and investigation of the tragic sinking of the ROK naval corvette Cheonan continues, Yonhap reports that ROK-based Pyongyang watchers are looking for indications that Kim Jong-il will travel to China this […]
