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 […]
Another session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly will be held in early June. Reuters reports (thank you, Joe): North Korea has called for a rare second session of its parliament on June 7, its […]
Iran’s state news agency has announced that SPA President Kim Yong Nam will visit Iran in June or July this summer. “This high-ranking official is expected to visit in two or three months,” Iranian foreign […]
Kim Jong Il did not appear at the 2nd session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly. The 2nd Session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK was held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall […]
Kim Jong Il did not appear at the 2nd session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly. The 2nd Session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK was held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall […]
Ri Chol’s replacement as DPRK Ambassador to Switzerland has been appointed. So Se Phyong has been appointed as Ri’s replacement in Berne. Ambassador So was previously the country’s ambassador to Iran, appointed in November 2008. […]
In a 29 March editorial Korean Central News Agency hits back at external observation and reporting about KJI’s health, its internal economic situation and recent contingency planning around the country: Pyongyang – There is now […]