Leadership
Information related to North Korea’s leadership and leadership structures
In Juche North Korea, elections hold you
Election day may be a festive occasion, but it's hardly the people choosing their own leaders
How long will Kim Jong Un’s hard line continue?
Is there a plan behind the rise in tensions, or can the North Korean leader just not help himself?
Contradictions in North Korean ideology
Have North Koreans stopped to think about the holes in the official message?
How North Korean writings rationalize Kim Jong Un’s leadership style
Stories about the ‘failures,’ and lessons, of specialists explain Kim’s decision-making
Sanctions or sense: How to make North Korea listen
One cannot expect Pyongyang to stop weapons proliferation when that's what they're doing
Is North Korea a racist state?
How well does the average N.Korean retain ultra-nationalist, occasionally race-tinged propaganda?
North Korean civic groups shouldn’t waste their time
Why spend money or time on something that's not going to bring democracy to the North?
In February, leadership looks ahead to party congress
Kim focuses attention of satellite launch, military affairs, lead-up to Seventh Party Congress