nuclear weapons
Hwasong-15 launched from Sunan
On the afternoon (KST) of 18 February (Saturday), the DPRK’s Missile General Bureau managed a drill of the Hwasong-15 theater ballistic missile from the Sunan area of Pyongyang. The missile drill was held after an […]
Gen. O Kuk Ryol (1930-2023)
Gen. O Kuk Ryol (O Kuk-yo’l), a retired former senior national security official and close adviser and friend of late DPRK leader Kim Jong Il (Kim Cho’ng-il), died of heart failure on the morning […]
Chronology of military events since mid-September
The following is a rolling chronology of ballistic missile events (drills and test firings), artillery shelling incidents and external military exercises (US-ROK, US-JP and US-ROK-JP) that have occurred in and around the Korean Peninsula since […]
Pak To Chun (1944-202?)
Pak To Chun (Pak To-ch’un) has passed away. Rather than a state media announcement about Pak’s death, his demise was disclosed during a KCNA report about the burial of his remains in the Patriotic Martyrs’ […]
KJU War Event Speech
Esteemed comrade veterans of the Fatherland Liberation War, Comrade lecturers and officials engaged in the administration of revolutionary relics associated with the victorious war, service personnel and students of universities and revolutionary schools present in […]
Hypersonic Missile Test Starts DPRK New Year with a Bang
The Workers’ Party of Korea [WPK] Munitions Industry Department [MID] tested a hypersonic missile on the morning of 5 January (Wednesday). According to DPRK state media, the “successive test successes in the sector of hypersonic […]
New SED Director?
Choe Sang Gon appears to have been appointed director of the Central Committee’s Science and Education Department [SED], replacing Choe Myong Tong. Since the beginning of October, Choe has attended three science-related events identified by […]
