corps commanders
Kim Jong Il’s Return
Kim Cho’ng-il has returned to the DPRK via Dandong. His third trip to the PRC in less than year remains open to interpretation. Two events scheduled on either end of the DPRK-PRC border intended to […]
KCI Conducts First Field Inspection of 2011
The DPRK media reports that Kim Cho’ng-il visited the command of KPA Unit 6556, his reported field inspection in 2011. KCI’s first and last field inspections of 2010 were conducted at the 105th Tank Division. […]
NDC/CMC Banquet
KCNA reported on 24 December 2010 that Kim Chong-il attended a banquet co-hosted by the National Defense Commission and Central Military Commission “on the occasion of the 19thanniversary” of his appointment as KPA Supreme Commander. […]
VMAR Ri Yong Ho Emerges After YP-do
VMAR Ri Yong Ho (Chief of the KPA General Staff Department [GSD] and Central Military Commission co-Vice Chairman) was reported on 29 November attending a performance of the DPRK’s State Symphony Orchestra. This was his […]
PRC Military Delegation in DPRK to Mark 60th Anniversary of CPV Entry in Korean War
General Guo Boxiong, a Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, arrived in the DPRK on Saturday to participate in several events commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV) entry in the […]
KPA Warns ROK Naval Drill of “Physical Counter-attack”
The Korean People’s Army’s western command issued a tactical “notice”, in response to planned anti-submarine drills in the Yellow Sea by the ROK military which will begin tomorrow (5 August) and last for five (5) […]
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 […]
