Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm Sixty-Four?
The Korean Workers’ Party is officially sixty-four years old. Perhaps the 12 October missile tests were a commemoration not only of the KWP, but its steadfast support for songun chongch’i. The KWP subsidized a fireworks […]
The unofficial official spokesman for the DPRK
The editors at Asia Times are not afraid of ideas. They circulate some truly brilliant essays on global security and international commerce, as well the fringey, unrealistic ramblings of ex-60’s radical American academics (these people […]
Turn this house into a home
NK Leadership Watch will refrain from posting about the DPRK’s economic activities, but the country operates under command ‘n’ control so, occasionally, its economy relates to the leadership or internal security. Housing in Pyongyang is […]
Monday Missile Launch
En coda According to Yonhap News Agency, more North Korean missile tests may be on the way, this time on the country’s west coast. The South Korean government, meanwhile, is threatening to “issue a statement” […]
On the road again
En coda Naenara posted the KCNA account of Kim Jong-il’s guidance tour to the Migok Cooperative Farm on the outskirts of the city of Sariwon. It included the model family photo of former KPA officer […]
New Study on DPRK Engagement
In an interview on CNN after Kim Jong-il granted clemency to wayward US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, Mike Chinoy, a former CNN Asia reporter who had actually met Kim Il-sung and visited DPRK […]
DPRK's Guerilla Monsoon & Six Party Talk Buzzkill?
Update PRC Premier Wen Jiabao and the Chinese government, according to Yonhap, “welcomed Lee’s ‘grand bargain’ dubbing it ‘the great exchange’ in Chinese ” after a meeting between China, South Korea and Japan. And yet […]
You Say You Want a Constitution?
North Korea Leadership Watch was sound asleep at the wheel on this one, so via the fabulous Curtis Melvin’s North Korea Economy Watch to the Northeast Asia Matters: The Korean Peninsula comes a copy of […]
Wen, we meet again
Despite having Pyongyang (and perhaps China) watchers glued to the news, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to the DPRK did not produce anything in the way of major diplomatic breakthroughs. And why would it? […]
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