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 […]
The Bozz's Post-Turkey Day Pyongyang Foray and POTUS to Asia
Yonhap cites an anonymous source that says US Special Envoy Stephen Bosworth will travel to the DPRK after the US Thanksgiving holiday, the week of 25-29 November. Ambassador Bosworth’s supposed arrival will be preceded by […]
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