Jang Song-thaek
The Money Never Runs Out Guidance Tour
(n.b. Kim Jong-il’s last public appearance was a visit to the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm in Pyongyang) Even if US Special Representative (and Dean of the Tufts Fletcher School) Stephen Bosworth requested a meeting with […]
SSD Deputy Director Went to China in November
Tokyo Shimbun reports that KPA Col. Gen. U Tong-chuk visited China in the middle of November. U Tong-chuk is the Senior Deputy Director of the State Security Department and was elected to the expanded National […]
Guidance Train: Here, There and Everywhere
(n.b. Kim Jong-il’s last known appearance was at the Paekhwawon State Guest House for a meeting with PRC Defense Minister Gen. Liang Guanglie on 25 November) Kim Jong-il made a rather hasty retreat from Pyongyang […]
Morningstar Rumors
Chosun Ilbo adds another story to the “Is he or isn’t he?” scuttlebutt machine around the possible hereditary succession of Kim Jong-un. This story contradicts a report from JoongAng Daily that stated the mysterious Kim […]
Did the Morningstar General visit Wonsan Aggie in April?
AFP channels a report from the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun which obtained a PAD document that relates Kim Jong-un joined his dad when General-Secretary Kim conducted a guidance tour of the Wonsan University of Agriculture […]
The Guidance Train Over the River and Through the Woods
(n.b. Kim Jong-il’s last known appearance was around 9 November when he attended a concert given by a music troupe of the Ministry of Public Security) Kim Jong-il laid low following the naval skirmish on […]
Kim Ok out of Kim Jong-il Secretariat, Out of his Home
JoongAng Daily has a highly fascinating report about Kim Ok. Ms. Kim was featured in my posting about the ladies around General-Secretary Kim. According to JAD‘s sources in ROK intelligence, Ms. Kim is no longer […]
