Leadership
Information related to North Korea’s leadership and leadership structures
Analysis: Kim Jong Un promotes People’s Security Minister
Choe will keep his position as minister but simultaneously hold his higher General rank in the Korean People's Army (KPA)
Kim Jong Un’s changing priorities: May visits in the DPRK
May saw Kim Jong Un make five economic appearances, a striking departure from recent months
Regime survival is primary goal – Moon Chung-in interview part 2
North Korea's nuclear program, diplomacy and domestic affairs are all driven by one goal - regime survival
Does it really make sense to engage North Korea?
Former UK Ambassador to North Korea lays out the case for engagement with North Korea
Located: State Academy of Science’s Turf Institute
Visit to turf institute marks first economic visit by Kim Jong Un in months
NK Media Watch – May 6 to 12
Cooperative farms nationwide are planting, and industrial art exhibition ended, Pyongyang goes cycling and in international news, a U.S. aircraft crashes while brush fires ravage California.
North Korea’s “do it yourself” Kim Jong Un idolization campaign
How North Korean propagandists were able to quickly unleash a Kim Jong Un veneration campaign
ANALYSIS: A History of North Korean Military Purges
The North Korean armed forces are in political retreat, pushed aside by the civilian bureaucracy
Why a traffic warden was given North Korea’s highest accolade
Andrei Lankov looks at the context of traffic warden's "DPRK Hero" award and possible explanations
