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KJI's First Day in China
Yonhap reports on KJI’s departure from Dalian to Beijing: Members of Kim’s delegation checked out of their hotel in the port city of Dailan, where they spent their first night in China. It was not […]
KJI Receives the Chinese
Kim Jong-il received Wang Jiarui in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province. The KCNA report was pretty much the same one issued last year. Xinhua reports, “The Chinese president also invited Kim to visit China, once again.” […]
NK Elites Face Travel Restrictions in EU
UPDATE: Here is a PDF copy of EU Council Regulation 1283/2009. (This list of the thirteen [13] DPRK officials on the “no entry” list is at the bottom of this post.) JoongAng Daily reports that […]
You Say It's Your Birthday
UPDATE Sam Kim has a great report in Yonhap about a Friday Rodong Sinmun editorial that callson North Korean citizens to “toast, toast to the endlessly bright future of Chosun (North Korea) that will resemble […]
DPRK Succession's in the Stars
Kim So-hyun in The Korea Herald has a good report on succession which include a reference to a “morningstar: Venus, also known as the morning star,” shed an unusually bright light above the Chonji before […]
More on the Bozz in the Revolutionary Center
Choson Sinbo reports more at length about the arrival of US Special Representative Stephen Bosworth arriving in Pyongyang. Ambassador Bosworth and his entourage were met at the airport by MOFA bureau chief Chong Tae-yang when […]
Nostalgia Files
The Academy Of Korean Studies has released 1,062 photos of North Korean social and political life from (ca.) 1945-1949 (also see DailyNK here). This is quite the research score for Korea scholars, as photos of […]
