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Central Report Meeting Commemorates Foundation Day
The DPRK leadership congregated at the 25 April House of Culture Tuesday night, one day ahead of the 62nd anniversary of the country’s official foundation (9 September). During his report, DPRK Premier Choe Yong Rim […]
Scuttle Buttin’ Jong Un’s Shrine in Kangdong County
The latest Kim Jong Un [Jong-un; Chong-un; Jong Eun] rumor is that the Central Party has ordered the construction of a KJU-related historic site, or “shrine” in Kangdong County. According to Lee Young-hwa, of Rescue […]
Kim Jong Il Statue
One of the only known images of a bronze statue of Kim Jong Il has surfaced. Open Radio for North Korea published the photograph of the KJI statue, which appeared on the cover of the […]
Kim Jong Un on Guidance Tour with KJI in Sinuiju?
On 19 June 2010 Korean Central Broadcasting Station reported that Kim Jong Il conducted a guidance tour of the Rakwon Machine Complex and visited a newly constructed football stadium. According to reports in the North […]
KJI May 2010 Appearances and Visits
In May, 2010, KCNA issued eleven (11) reports on Kim Jong-il’s visits and appearances to some 22 different locations in North Korea. This does not include his “unofficial” five day sojourn to China which KCNA […]
What has KJI done to his house? (One of them any way. . .)
Curtis Melvin notes that Google Earth has updated some of its Pyongyang imagery. Looking around the Central Party complex, it seems Kim Jong Il is having one of the two residences near his main office […]
KJI Leaves China for NK
Kim Jong Il and his entourage, to paraphrase Bob Seger, got out of Beijing. KBS reports that “security tightened around Beijing Station and along railroads leading out of the Chinese capital.” Citing an anonymous source, […]
