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Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm Sixty-Four?
The Korean Workers’ Party is officially sixty-four years old. Perhaps the 12 October missile tests were a commemoration not only of the KWP, but its steadfast support for songun chongch’i. The KWP subsidized a fireworks […]
You Say You Want a Constitution?
North Korea Leadership Watch was sound asleep at the wheel on this one, so via the fabulous Curtis Melvin’s North Korea Economy Watch to the Northeast Asia Matters: The Korean Peninsula comes a copy of […]
Table for 7 ?
There are no outward signs that the Six-Party Talks are set to immediately resume. But that has not stopped the intervention of world politics’ favorite busybody, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, from inviting himself to a […]
What about Lee?
Don Kirk has published yet another essay in Asia Times, which is an excellent summary of the week’s to-and-fro of US-South Korea diplomacy. Although, Mr. Kirk is playing it safe when he writes that: “It’s […]
Updates
There are currently forty-two (42) biographies available in PDF format on the Leadership Biographies page. I have added more entries for the DPRK Security Apparatus, The Party and the Kim Family. You can also find […]
When, oh Wen
It seems the Dai Bingguo visit, a little over a week ago, was a preparatory meeting for an upcoming visit by PRC Premier Wen Jiabao. Mr. Wen will visit the DPRK from 4 to 6 […]
No Country for Old Men
One of the results of the August meeting between Kim Jong-il and Hyundai Group Chair Hyun Jeong-eun was the resumption of meetings that reunite Korean families in the North and South. Actually, prior to Ms. […]
