North Korea Leadership Watch

Research and Analysis on the DPRK Leadership

A Vinalon Hero is Something to Be (NK Monthly Mags)

(With grateful acknowledgment to NK Economy Watch for alerting me to the appearance of these) My apologies if story-specific hyperlinks do not function. The Foreign Languages Publishing House has released the July, 2010, issues of […]

Jul, 11
Meeting of Party Representatives (Party Conference) to Be Held in September

Meeting of Party Representatives (Party Conference) to Be Held in September

North Korea has announced it will hold a meeting of Party Representatives (Party Conference) convened by the KWP Political Bureau (Politburo) in September. The WPK founded by President Kim Il Sung and led by Kim […]

Jun, 26

June Magazines

Korea has two pieces on Kim Jong Il’s activities.  One is an unsigned account of KJI’s visit to the Kim Il Sung University E-library, and Choe Kwang Ho wrote an essay on KJI’s neverending tour.  […]

Jun, 20

NK Media Coverage of SPA

KCNA , in an uncharacteristic move, published short biographic sketches on Mr. Jang, Mr Choe and the Vice Premiers appointed at yesterday’s SPA session.  Below you can find the image carried by the North Korean […]

Jun, 08

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

NK's PR Cyber Blitz in South Korea

KJI and the propaganda managers in the Central Party are fond of using proxy writer campaigns to advance a particular ideological motif.  It seems the DPRK’s crack electronic warfare operatives have exported the proxy writer […]

Jun, 02

KJI May 2010 Appearances and Visits

In May, 2010, KCNA issued eleven (11) reports on Kim Jong-il’s visits and appearances to some 22 different locations in North Korea.  This does not include his “unofficial” five day sojourn to China which KCNA […]

Jun, 01

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