North Korea Leadership Watch

Research and Analysis on the DPRK Leadership

Jang-O Competition for Foreign Geetis

Two KJI confidantes and National Defense Commission Vice Chairmen, Jang Song Taek and  Gen. O Kuk Ryol, are rumored to be competing to earn the most foreign investment for North Korea through their respective international […]

Jul, 06

The Restoration of Office #38

Office #38, one of the bureaus that manages Kim Jong Il’s finances (as well as an owner-operator of Korean restaurants and hotels in the country and abroad), was “restored” in March, 2010, after reportedly being […]

Jun, 22

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 […]

Jun, 21

KJI’s Youthful Princes and Princess

Several photographs of Kim Jong Il’s three youngest children during the times they studied at the International School of Berne have surfaced.  In releasing the photographs, Yonhap reports: The photos of Kim Jong-un, believed to […]

Jun, 10

Kim Jong Nam Interview

Kim Jong Nam, eldest son and aide of KJI, told a South Korean journalist that he has no plans to move to Europe and that his father  is “doing well” with regard to his health.  […]

Jun, 07

Ri Je Gang Dies

KCBS reported on 2 June 2010 that Ri Je Gang, Senior Deputy Director of the Organization and Guidance Department, died in an auto accident at the age of 80.  Mr. Ri regularly escorted Kim Jong […]

Jun, 02
KJI Granddaughter's Friend From the South

KJI Granddaughter's Friend From the South

Kim Jong Nam does not restrict his children’s South Korean cultural interactions to the occasional Rain concert.  Mr. Kim (whose business commitments find him dividing his time between Macau, Beijing and Pyongyang) is said to […]

Jun, 02

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