North Korea Leadership Watch

Research and Analysis on the DPRK Leadership

Kim Jong Nam Interview

Kim Jong Nam, eldest son and aide of KJI, told a South Korean journalist that he has no plans to move to Europe and that his father  is “doing well” with regard to his health.  […]

Jun, 07

Personnel Shuffles in the first half of 2010

With the deaths of Ri Je Gang and KPA Artillery Commander Col. Gen. Ri Jong Bu, eleven (11) members of North Korea’s leadership have either passed away, been replaced or disappeared from public life in […]

Jun, 04

Ri Je Gang Dies

KCBS reported on 2 June 2010 that Ri Je Gang, Senior Deputy Director of the Organization and Guidance Department, died in an auto accident at the age of 80.  Mr. Ri regularly escorted Kim Jong […]

Jun, 02
KJI Granddaughter's Friend From the South

KJI Granddaughter's Friend From the South

Kim Jong Nam does not restrict his children’s South Korean cultural interactions to the occasional Rain concert.  Mr. Kim (whose business commitments find him dividing his time between Macau, Beijing and Pyongyang) is said to […]

Jun, 02

NK's PR Cyber Blitz in South Korea

KJI and the propaganda managers in the Central Party are fond of using proxy writer campaigns to advance a particular ideological motif.  It seems the DPRK’s crack electronic warfare operatives have exported the proxy writer […]

Jun, 02
KPA Artillery Commander, Ri Jong Bu, Dies

KPA Artillery Commander, Ri Jong Bu, Dies

KPA Artillery Commander, Colonel-General Ri Jong Bu has passed away.  Col. Gen. Ri was appointed to his position to his position in January, 2009, and was reported to have escorted Kim Jong on several occasions […]

Jun, 02

Has NDC absorbed the United Front Department?

Last Friday (28 May), the National Defense Commission held a press conference in Pyongyang “denouncing the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors of south Korea for having recently kicked off a racket of confrontation with […]

Jun, 01

KJI May 2010 Appearances and Visits

In May, 2010, KCNA issued eleven (11) reports on Kim Jong-il’s visits and appearances to some 22 different locations in North Korea.  This does not include his “unofficial” five day sojourn to China which KCNA […]

Jun, 01

SPA Session to Issue Statement on Cheonan?

The ROK Ministry of Unification anticipates that the DPRK is expected ” to announce its positions and principles on issues it is faced with, such as the outcome of an investigation into the Choenan incident” […]

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