Supreme People's Assembly
Jon Pyong Ho (1926-2014)
Former Workers’ Party of Korea [WPK] Secretary and Director of the WPK Munitions Industries Department and Member of the DPRK National Defense Commission Gen. Jon Pyong Ho passed away on 7 July 2014 from a […]
New Vice Premier Appointed
Minister of Chemical Industry, Yi Mu-yo’ng (Ri Mu Yong), was appointed Vice Premier of the Cabinet. Ri was first elected to the SPA in 1998 and was elected a member of the Party Central Committee […]
New DPRK Ambassador to Czech Republic
Ri Kwang Il has been appointed the DPRK’s new ambassador to the Czech Republic. Ri previously served as a deputy director of the DPRK Institute for Disarmament and Peace. He replaces Ri Pyo’ng-kap (Ri Pyong […]
If I Were a Cadre and You Were a Lathe Machine Operator
DPRK media reported on 23 April that Kim Cho’ng-il made his first reported visit to the Najin Shipyard. Yonhap reports: Kim “provided field guidance to the Rajin Shipyard” in the North’s northeastern port of Rajin, […]
KIS Birthday
With a 40-minute magic show at May Day Stadium, the DPRK began the final countdown to April 2012 which will mark the 100th anniversary of Kim Il-so’ng’s birth and a declaration of success in kangsong […]
12th SPA’s 4th Session Elects New NDC Member, MPS
The 4th session (plenum) of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly [SPA] convened Thursday [7 April] at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang. Neither Kim Cho’ng-il nor Kim Cho’ng-u’n attended the meeting. Defying the speculative pronouncements […]
12th SPA to convene 4th session on 7 April
On 18 March 2011 KCNA reported that it was publicized on 15 March that “the fourth session of the 12th SPA [Supreme People’s Assembly] of the DPRK will be held in Pyongyang on 7 April […]
