Ministry of Public Security
Kim Jong Il Visits Nanjing
Kim Cho’ng-il’s trip to the PRC continued into its fifth day. On Tuesday [24 May], Kim Cho’ng-il visited Nanjing for several hours which included a tour of an electronic industry factory. Yonhap, via Korea Herald, […]
Kim Jong Il Tours Sites in Yangzhou
The third and fourth day of Kim Cho’ng-il’s visit to China proceeded in Yangzhou, where he is staying in a state guest house. During his stay in Yangzhou, he has reportedly toured several sites including […]
Kim Jong Il Continues
Kim Cho’ng-il’s trip to the PRC continued into its second day in Changchun. In a brief six-hour trip through the city KCI visited a car factory, according to Yonhap News Agency. His train departed during […]
Jong Un Trial Balloon to Beijing (Or a stalking horse to Jilin?)
2010 was the year Pyongyang watchers waited for Kim Cho’ng-il to travel to China. KCI managed to live up to the hype, as news photographers staked out his private train. When the media veil under […]
New FMD Outbreak
According to the DPRK government’s own reporting to international organizations, the country saw new cases of foot-and-mouth disease [FMD] in late Febraury and March. Yonhap reports: A new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) occurred in […]
People’s Security Minister Meets VN Counterpart
Minister of People’s Security, Yi Myo’ng-su [Ri Myong Su], has discharged one of his first public acts since his appointment to the position at the SPA on 7 April. Yi was reported by DPRK media […]
12th SPA’s 4th Session Elects New NDC Member, MPS
The 4th session (plenum) of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly [SPA] convened Thursday [7 April] at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang. Neither Kim Cho’ng-il nor Kim Cho’ng-u’n attended the meeting. Defying the speculative pronouncements […]
