North Korea Leadership Watch

Research and Analysis on the DPRK Leadership

NK Media Coverage of SPA

KCNA , in an uncharacteristic move, published short biographic sketches on Mr. Jang, Mr Choe and the Vice Premiers appointed at yesterday’s SPA session.  Below you can find the image carried by the North Korean […]

Jun, 08

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

KJI April 2010 Appearances

Kim Jong Il April 2010 Appearances Kim Jong Il was reported by KCNA to have made 15 public appearances in April 2010, of which eight (8) was his attendance at concerts, three (3) were inspections […]

May, 02

KJI Visits KPA Unit Involved in Hwang Plot

Kim So-hyun reports in the Korea Herald that Kim Jong Il inspected the KPA unit that directed the failed assassination plot on NK defector Hwang Jang Yop and is widely believed in South Korea to […]

Apr, 28

General Kim Myong Guk's 4th Star

Last week, to commemorate the Korean People’s Army’s 78th anniversary, Kim Jong Il attended the military exercises of KPA Unit 115. The training well showed the decisive resolution and merciless striking force of the KPA […]

Apr, 27

KJI Attends Concerts with Internal Security Chiefs

Kim Jong Il sealed the recent changes to the country’s two principal internal security agencies by attending two (2) different concerts with the agencies’ respective managers.  First, Ryo’ngdoja took in a performance of the Song […]

Apr, 18

KIS Birthday (A lot of water under the bridge)

The country held a relatively subdued celebration on Thursday (15 April) for the 98th birthday of the late DPRK President, Kim Il Sung.  Unlike the dual debauchery of the February celebrations for the Lunar New […]

Apr, 16

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