Propaganda
They’re showing posters of the sinking
A Chinese businessman, recently returned from a trip to the DPRK, snapped a photograph of a poster in Pyongyang with the slogan “Ready to crush any attack with a single blow!” and the image of […]
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 […]
KJI’s Ties that Bind
Kim Jong Il is increasingly relying on his closest relative, sister Kim Kyong Hui, and her husband, Jang Song Taek, while the country undergoes a political transition. According to the ROK Unification Ministry, Kim Jong […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mass Rally in Pyongyang
On 30 May 2010 KCTV broadcast a mass rally held on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, and ostensibly organized as a popular reaction to Cheonan-based tensions on the Korean Peninsula. 100,000 Pyongyang citizens mobilized […]
May Magazines (or, Time Out Pyongyang)
The country’s overseas magazines have been released. Korea honors the various activities held to commemorate KIS’ birthday and KJI’s anniversary as Chairman of the National Defense Commission. Included are articles on KJI’s observation of a […]
