Korean Workers' Party (KWP)
Personnel Shuffles in the first half of 2010
With the deaths of Ri Je Gang and KPA Artillery Commander Col. Gen. Ri Jong Bu, eleven (11) members of North Korea’s leadership have either passed away, been replaced or disappeared from public life in […]
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 […]
NK's PR Cyber Blitz in South Korea
KJI and the propaganda managers in the Central Party are fond of using proxy writer campaigns to advance a particular ideological motif. It seems the DPRK’s crack electronic warfare operatives have exported the proxy writer […]
Has NDC absorbed the United Front Department?
Last Friday (28 May), the National Defense Commission held a press conference in Pyongyang “denouncing the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors of south Korea for having recently kicked off a racket of confrontation with […]
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 […]
SPA Session to Issue Statement on Cheonan?
The ROK Ministry of Unification anticipates that the DPRK is expected ” to announce its positions and principles on issues it is faced with, such as the outcome of an investigation into the Choenan incident” […]
Mass Rally in Pyongyang
On 30 May 2010 KCTV broadcast a mass rally held on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, and ostensibly organized as a popular reaction to Cheonan-based tensions on the Korean Peninsula. 100,000 Pyongyang citizens mobilized […]
