Below are some selected photos of events relating to Kim Jong-il’s Birthday. I have compiled and categorized a batch of images from NK media from 10 February to 17 February 2010 into the appended file. […]
Kim Jong-il’s birthday celebrations continue in the DPRK, but seem to be winding down with belated greetings and celebrations being reports by the North Korean press. Over the weekend on the pretext of the Lunar […]
Late last week, selected members of the Kim Il-sung Youth League embarked on a national study tour commemorating Kim Il-sung’s long, strange trip from Pyongyang to Jilin in 1925. Making a long story (literally, it’s […]
One of the DPRK’s most famous faces was recently the subject of a Reuters story, a review of a Chosun Monthly piece on Ri Chun-hui. Ms. Ri is the sixty-six (66) year-old chief anchor of […]
With his arrival today in Seoul, US President Barack Obama’s “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” tour of East Asia is quickly drawing to a close. The DPRK is expected to dominate any discussions President Obama […]
En coda Northeast Asia Matters has posted some images and YouTube link of the banned TV commercials. Original Posting Cha Sung-su, Chair of the DPRK Radio and Television Broadcasting Committee, was recently sacked from his […]