North Korea not only spent $2 billion on its lavish 70th anniversary festivities for the Workers’ Party but also collected “loyalty donations” for the event, sources say. (FULL STORY) (more…)
By Dr. Jong-Heon Lee SEOUL — Cash-strapped North Korea has failed to secure foreign dignitaries to attend its biggest celebration in years, placing a damper on the isolated nation’s (more…)
By Dr. Jong-Heon Lee SEOUL — North Korea’s youthful leader Kim Jong-Un has recently installed economic technocrats to key higher posts in a sign he will focus efforts on (more…)
By Dr. Jong-Heon Lee North Korea’s youthful leader Kim Jong-Un has recently installed economic technocrats to key higher posts in a sign he will focus efforts on rebuilding the (more…)
By Dr. Jong-Heon Lee North Korea’s recent wild swings between confrontation and detente shows how deeply Kim Jong-Un feared South Korea’s loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts, officials and analysts here said. (more…)
North Korea has executed vice premier Choe Yong-Gon, another in a series of high-level purges, according to a South Korean media report. Choe, 63, was said to have been (more…)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is moving to improve ties with China that have been strained during much of the young leader’s brief tenure, officials and sources here say. (more…)
By Dr. Jong-Heon Lee North Korea has prepared a massive military parade and most likely military provocations in a bid to stabilize the ruling elite and the public, military (more…)
Two months after South Korea’s intelligence agency tellingly disclosed the shocking execution of Kim Jong-Un’s defense chief Vice Marshal Hyon Yong-Chol by close-range anti-aircraft gun fire, Pyongyang officially dispelled (more…)
