National Defense Commission (NDC)
The Youthful General’s Quiet Birthday
8 January (Saturday) was believed to be the official birthday of hereditary successor Kim Chong-un [Kim Jong Un]. Last year editorials “toast[ed] the endlessly bright future of Chosun” and workers left their offices to participate […]
NDC/CMC Banquet
KCNA reported on 24 December 2010 that Kim Chong-il attended a banquet co-hosted by the National Defense Commission and Central Military Commission “on the occasion of the 19thanniversary” of his appointment as KPA Supreme Commander. […]
DPRK NYE Calls for Denuclearization, Reduction in Tension
The complete text for the Joint New Year’s Editorial can be found at Northeast Asia Matters. The DPRK media has printed and broadcast the 2011 Joint New Year’s Editorial. The editorial underscores kangsong taeguk and […]
Kim Yong-chun’s nuclear invocation
Kim Yong-chun (VMar), NDC Vice Chairman and Minister of the People’s Armed Forces, said that the DPRK and KPA “are fully ready to start a sacred war based on the nuclear deterrent at a time […]
Jong Un’s Mother’s Birthplace
The Japanese magazine AERA has published a photograph and feature on the birthplace and early childhood home of Kim Chong-un’s mother, Ko Yong-hui. Madame Ko was born Ko Chun-haeng in Tsuruhashi, Osaka, Japan in 1952. […]
KJI’s 148 Guidance Tours (so far) in 2010
According to the ROK Unification Ministry, Kim Chong-il has made 148 visits in 2010. 58 of those tours were to economic locales in the DPRK. KCI has been reported by the DPRK media as having […]
VMAR Ri Yong Ho Emerges After YP-do
VMAR Ri Yong Ho (Chief of the KPA General Staff Department [GSD] and Central Military Commission co-Vice Chairman) was reported on 29 November attending a performance of the DPRK’s State Symphony Orchestra. This was his […]
