Leadership
Information related to North Korea’s leadership and leadership structures
What’s behind S.Korea’s intelligence failures?
HUMINT remains indispensable but is often unreliable; politics, incompetence worsen things
Kim Il Sung and the communist rumor mill
How the Soviets tried to win the North Korean leader’s support by hurting his feelings
The Seventh Congress and the prospects for North Korea’s economy
Much rhetoric on economic change at landmark event, but little detail signifying change
Sanctions will hurt everyone but North Korea’s leaders
If anything sanction will cause authorities to crack down on nascent marketization in the North
North Korea’s capital, Juche and a towering achievement
Continued changes to the cityscape push Pyongyang toward Kim's ideas, away from Soviet influence
With Byungjin, Kim Jong Un hedges his bets
Despite economic emphasis, planks of North Korean strategy hold fail-safe in event of setbacks
History, Juche and public space in making of North Korea’s capital
Shifting ideas and loyalties from the early days of the republic can be seen in Pyongyang's design
What happens at a North Korean Party Conference or Congress
What, based on history, are the chances of reform being announced at the Seventh Congress?
Kim Jong Un and the children: developing ‘their own way’
The third Kim pays special attention to children in fiction, rewarding a surprising individuality
Critical diplomacy: How the UK’s first ambassador to N.Korea operated
David Slinn has plenty to say about North Korea more than a decade after working as UK ambassador
