New Vice Director at United Front Department
Unnamed sources have informed Yonhap that United Front Department Director Kim Yang-gon has a new deputy director. During October, Won Tong-yon was promoted concurrently to deputy director of the United Front Department and Vice Chair […]
Guidance Train Slowed?
Kim Jong-il has temporarily shut down the guidance train. For the last moth, General-Secretary Kim was reported by KCNA and KCTV to be out and about, primarily at economic locations, offering praise, assurances and attempting […]
"Sound of the General's Footsteps"
Has the Kim Jong-un tribute song been performed under a new title? On Friday (13 November) a schoolchildren’s poetry and song recital was held at the Central Youth Hall in east Pyongyang. The event ostensibly […]
The Women around Kim Jong-il
(n.b. This will be the first in a series of occasional postings about the people and personalities close to Kim Jong-il. Some of this will relate to succession issues or to the broader dynamics of […]
Where's James Church on this one?
It may not be A Corpse in the Koryo, but Yonhap reports the body of a diplomatic consul at the DPRK Consulate in Shenyang was discovered in late October three (3) weeks after the fortysomething […]
POTUS on DPRK's "better future"
At a joint news conference in Tokyo with Japan PM Yukio Hatoyama, US President Barack Obama said that the DPRK “can open the door to a better future” should it decide to table it nuclear […]
The French do Pyongyang
Jack Lang, Special Envoy of the President of France, arrived earlier this week in Pyongyang. Mr. Lang met with DPRK Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun on Tuesday, discussing “bilateral relations and a series of issues of […]
NLL Skirmish
Northeast Asia Matters has an excellent summary about this week’s skirmish between the DPRK and ROK navies in the West (Yellow) Sea, which can save the casual reader a lot of time and conflicting information. […]
Guidance Train Coming Down the Line
(n.b. Kim Jong-il’s last known appearance was around 1 November at the Unhung Cooperative Farm in Thaechon County, North Pyongan Province) Continuing with his working for the weekend m.o., Kim Jong-il (or his body double […]
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