Revaluation Reflux
In the latest installment of “For the Love of Money“ Choson Sinbo features several stories about the DPRK’s “currency exchange” which may be the closest thing Pyongyang watchers get to an official announcement. Choson Sinbo […]
The Bozz Touches Down in Seoul
US Special Envoy (and Dean of the Tufts Fletcher School) Stephen Bosworth flew into Seoul via London and arrived on Sunday. Ambassador Bosworth will huddle with ROK officials including its nuclear representative Wi Sung-lac and […]
Guidance Train: Here, There and Everywhere
(n.b. Kim Jong-il’s last known appearance was at the Paekhwawon State Guest House for a meeting with PRC Defense Minister Gen. Liang Guanglie on 25 November) Kim Jong-il made a rather hasty retreat from Pyongyang […]
Something's happening, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Ri
The KWP Propaganda and Agitation Department and Foreign Language Publishing House is celebrating the 60th Anniversary of “The Foreign Language Magazine.” Curtis Melvin has some good thoughts on this momentous occasion, having completed an excellent […]
Revaluation's Fall Guy
He doesn’t look much like Lee Majors, but DPRK Premier Kim Yong-il is identified by Choson Ilbo as taking the hit for the currency revaluation. 2009 has been a banner year for Premier Kim who […]
Swine Flu Hits DPRK
Good Friends is reporting that swine flu has broken out in Sinuiju. Kim Jong-il had mentioned “anti-epidemic facilities” during a visit this past weekend to a pig farm in Pyongyang. According to a Good Friends: […]
Bozz Visit Preview of Coming Attractions
Kathleen Stephens, US Ambassador to ROK, told an ROK forum that US Special Envoy Stephen Bosworth will seek the DPRK’s return to the Six Party Talks and for the North Koreans to reaffirm the September […]
Money, it's a Gas
Daily NK reports that the currency change under way in the DPRK was announced at 14:00 by the radio broadcasts directly piped into the homes of North Korean citizens. Street markets have remained shuttered since […]
Morningstar Rumors
Chosun Ilbo adds another story to the “Is he or isn’t he?” scuttlebutt machine around the possible hereditary succession of Kim Jong-un. This story contradicts a report from JoongAng Daily that stated the mysterious Kim […]
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