Provincial Party Committees
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 […]
KJI China Visit: The Canonical Version
Kim Ji-hyun writes in Korea Herald that Chinese officials have briefed their South Korean counterparts about KJI’s recently completed trip to China: “The Chinese side explained in sincerity the background of Chairman Kim’s visit, what […]
Setting Up the Mosquito Nets in Rason & KJI China Trip
Choson Ilbo, citing an anonymous source, reports that former Minister of Foreign Trade Rim Kyong-man is now the leading official in Rason, the one responsible for drawing the mosquito net around the Special Administrative Region. […]
New Kangwon Provincial KWP Chief Secretary
Paek Kye-ryong is the new Chief Secretary of the Kangwon KWP Provincial Committee. His appointment was found in several North Korean media reports this month which referred to him as “chief secretary of the Kangwon […]
KWP Provincial Secretary and former Public Security Minister Dies
A successor is certainly needed on the Kangwon Provincial KWP Committee. On 26 December, KCNA published the obituary of Kangwon KWP Provincial Chief Secretary Ri Chol-bong. Mr. Ri was a KPA veteran and “held the […]
