North Korea Leadership Watch

Research and Analysis on the DPRK Leadership

Kim Jong Il Absent from 12th SPA 2nd Session (revised)

Kim Jong Il did not appear at the 2nd session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly. The 2nd Session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK was held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall […]

Apr, 09

Kim Jong Il Absent from 12th SPA 2nd Session (revised)

Kim Jong Il did not appear at the 2nd session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly. The 2nd Session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK was held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall […]

Apr, 09

NK Ambassador To Switzerland Appointed

Ri Chol’s replacement as DPRK Ambassador to Switzerland has been appointed.  So Se Phyong has been appointed as Ri’s replacement in Berne.  Ambassador So was previously the country’s ambassador to Iran, appointed in November 2008. […]

Apr, 06
Week Two of KJI China Trip Watch

Week Two of KJI China Trip Watch

Won Se-hoon, head of the ROK’s NIS, has a new prediction about KJI going to China: Won Se-hoon, head of the National Intelligence Service, was quoted as telling the parliament’s intelligence committee that Kim could […]

Apr, 05
Week Two of KJI China Trip Watch

Week Two of KJI China Trip Watch

Won Se-hoon, head of the ROK’s NIS, has a new prediction about KJI going to China: Won Se-hoon, head of the National Intelligence Service, was quoted as telling the parliament’s intelligence committee that Kim could […]

Apr, 05

KJI Hosts Party for Chinese Ambassador and Women's Volleyball Team

Kim Jong-il hosted a dinner party in Pyongyang for the new Chinese Ambassador, the presumably partied-out Liu Hongcai, embassy staff and the Tianjin women’s volleyball team.    Two days of public events in Pyongyang finds […]

Apr, 04
KJI Meets Chinese Ambassador

KJI Meets Chinese Ambassador

While Pyongyang watchers waited for Kim Jong-il to go to China, KJI brought China to him.  The General-Secretary completed the recent parade of core leadership to greet the new PRC Ambassador to the DPRK. He […]

Mar, 30

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