Korean Workers' Party (KWP)
To All the Cadres Who’ve Been Purged Before
(With many thanks to Joe for sending this) Chosun Ilbo, citing Radio Free Asia, reports that the Publication (Press) Censorship Bureau has ordered that images and writings of recently executed or disappeared Party and state […]
They’re showing posters of the sinking
A Chinese businessman, recently returned from a trip to the DPRK, snapped a photograph of a poster in Pyongyang with the slogan “Ready to crush any attack with a single blow!” and the image of […]
Rodong Says 3rd Party Conference in Sept. “Will Shine as a Notable Event”
An editorial by KWP-daily Rodong Sinmun said that the 3rd Workers’ Party Conference (or Meeting of Party Representatives) “will shine as a notable event in the history of the sacred Workers’ Party.” While some observers […]
NK Claims Readiness to Return to 6 Party Talks
Now that the UNSC has acted on the Cheonan, and neither annoyed the North Koreans nor gotten Sin Son Ho fired from his New York diplorep posting, the DPRK’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced […]
A Vinalon Hero is Something to Be (NK Monthly Mags)
(With grateful acknowledgment to NK Economy Watch for alerting me to the appearance of these) My apologies if story-specific hyperlinks do not function. The Foreign Languages Publishing House has released the July, 2010, issues of […]
UNSC Statement Accuses Nobody in Cheonan; KPA Accepts Invitation for Working Level Talks W/US Military over Cheonan
The United Nations Security Council has generated a consensus statement that “condemns the attack which led to the sinking of the Cheonan. . .appropriate and peaceful measures [should] be taken against those responsible.” The statement […]
United Front Chiefs’ Wreath Laying at Truce Village Monument
United Front Department Director Kim Yang Gon and other senior managers of the DPRK’s relations with the South held an annual 30 minute wreath laying ceremony on the North’s side of the truce village to […]
