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KIS Memoirist Says ROK Denied Asylum Claim
Yonhap reports that Kim Jong-ryul, an Austrian-based former Kim Il-sung Personal Secretariat employee who has released a memoir, claims that in 2006 the ROK Embassy in Vienna rejected his claim for asylum: “But it fell […]
Jon Il-chun, Director-General of State Development Bank
The DPRK has announced the first meeting of its State Development Bank, which took place at the Yanggankdo Hotel in Pyongyang. According to KCNA: The board of directors is made up of representatives of the […]
Ri Chol to Leave as UN & CH Diplorep
Yonhap, citing a source in Berne and general diplo gossip, reports that Ri Chol is leaving his posts. He is concurrently the DPRK’s Ambassador to Switzerland and to the UN Mission in Geneva. While Ambassador […]
New Kim Family Aide Memoir
Kim Jong-ryul, a former KPA Colonel and employee of Kim Il-sung’s secretariat (and perhaps KJI’s Personal Secretariat), has told his story to two Austrian journalists and released a memoir in German Im Dienst des Diktators: […]
State Dept. on NK Narcotics
The US State Department has released its 2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. While the DPRK seems to do a fair trade in bootleg cigarettes in Rason and currency counterfeiting: No confirmed instances of large-scale […]
