DPRK-US Relations
The Bozz to Pyongyang (Part II)
US Special Envoy to the DPRK (and Tufts Fletcher School Dean) Stephen Bosworth said in remarks Thursday that he will visit the DPRK by the end of the year, possibly in his words “in a […]
The Bozz to Pyongyang, KJI Invited to Beijing
Reuters reported earlier today of a possible trip by DPRK Special Envoy (and Fletcher School Dean) Stephen Bosworth to Pyongyang. Yomiuri Shimbun has a more detailed report about Ambassador Bosworth’s trip, which is likely to […]
More Succession Scuttlebutt
Last week, Nam Sung-wook, an expert on the DPRK Leadership who is an adviser to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, gave a lecture in Seoul where he contended that Kim Jong-un’s succession was put in […]
Guidance Train Kept a-Rollin' & When RG Met SK
1.) MOFA Director-General for North American Affairs, Ri Gun, met with Six-Party Talks Envoy, Sung Kim, for an hour in New York on Saturday (24 October). The substance of the meeting was not disclosed, and […]
Bosworth-Kang Chinese Showdown
The Korea Herald reports today that Beijing has been proposed as the setting for a bi-lateral US-DPRK meeting which the US hopes facilitates the DPRK returning to the Six-Party Talks. According to the report, Special […]
The Harden they come
Despite the missile tests on Monday (the second round could come at any point in the next five days) and the usual editorial bellyaching in the pages of Rodong Sinmun and Korean Central News Agency, […]
New Study on DPRK Engagement
In an interview on CNN after Kim Jong-il granted clemency to wayward US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, Mike Chinoy, a former CNN Asia reporter who had actually met Kim Il-sung and visited DPRK […]
