North Korea Leadership Watch

Research and Analysis on the DPRK Leadership

KPA Journal Vol. 1 Issue #5

KPA Journal Vol. 1 Issue #5

In issue #5, Joe Bermudez continues his trenchant history of North Korea’s intelligence services (focusing from 1967 to 1971).  There is also follow up imagery and information, courtesy of the USAF, on the attack on […]

Jun, 15

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 […]

Jun, 04
KPA Artillery Commander, Ri Jong Bu, Dies

KPA Artillery Commander, Ri Jong Bu, Dies

KPA Artillery Commander, Colonel-General Ri Jong Bu has passed away.  Col. Gen. Ri was appointed to his position to his position in January, 2009, and was reported to have escorted Kim Jong on several occasions […]

Jun, 02

DPRK To "Retract all measures for providing military guarantees"

Sam Kim reports in Yonhap that MPAF General Staff Department issued a statement renouncing the DPRK’s military agreements with the ROK: “The (North Korean military) will retract all measures for providing military guarantees for the […]

May, 28
HRC in ROK

HRC in ROK

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped in to Seoul, to meet with and provide a US show of support for ROK President Lee Myung-bak, and South Korea, following the conclusion of the Cheonan […]

May, 26

ROK "To Immediately Exercise Right of Self Defense"

The full English text of ROK President Lee Myung-bak’s remarks is available here. In a nationally televised address on the March 2010 sinking of ROK naval corvette Cheonan, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak declared his […]

May, 24
ROK Military Will Identify NK as Cheonan Assailant

ROK Military Will Identify NK as Cheonan Assailant

Kim So-hyun reports in Korea Herald that the South Korean military will issue a statement this Thursday that identifies the DPRK as responsible for the March sinking of the Cheonan. The South Korean military is […]

May, 16

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