succession
KJU Succession in Portrait and Silkscreen
The latest buzz around hereditary succession is centered on a story circulated by Rescue the North Korean People! Urgent Action Network. According to this account, the official portrait of successor Kim Jong-un (a/k/a: Kim Jong-eun, […]
Kim Jong-un's Military Education Through the Looking Glass
In the last successor gossip, Dong-a Ilbo reports that hereditary successor Kim Jong-un presided over KPA artillery drills in January near the West Sea, citing “a ranking source in Pyongyang.” This seems to add a […]
Hu Jintao meets KWP Official & Sino Morningstar Protest
POST SCRIPT Qin Gang, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, denies Asahi Shimbun‘s story or that Kim Jong-un ever visited China: “China expects North Korea to pursue the development path appropriate to its national […]
Succession, Stomp by Stomp
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 […]
The Third Brother Who Put Out the Fire
In February 2009, Pyongyang KCTV broadcast a children’s show The Good Heart of the Third Child. In the 2 February (2010) bulletin from the Korean Central News Agency announced that the 26 April Children’s Film […]
Were DPRK Diplos Informed of KJU Succession?
JoongAng Daily citing Free North Korea Radio reports that a message to the DPRK’s overseas embassies and foreign missions communicated the designation of Kim Jong-un [Eun] as Kim Jong-il’s hereditary successor. Kim Sung-min of FNKR […]
Truckin' with the Kim Il-sung Youth League
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 […]
