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…)
North Korea’s cash flow has tightened significantly due to its growing trade deficit and internal struggles over the allocation of funds from the exports of natural resources. SUBSCRIBE l (more…)
Gen. Hyon Yong-chol, the highest ranking North Korean uniformed officer, was indeed executed in late April, as initially reported by the South Korean intelligence agency but has remained unconfirmed (more…)
By Dr. Jong-Heon Lee North Korea has from the outset been dominated by the monolithic leadership of the “suryong (chieftain).” In the totalitarian environment created in the northern half (more…)
North Korea is seeking Chinese capital to improve its poor infrastructure for tourism, on which it is banking as a much-needed source for hard currency. North Korea has been (more…)
