Luke Herman, a Korea Economic Institute intern, recently put together a fantastic analysis of Kim Jong-il's visits in the first of 2011, in an effort to distill information on the main figures within the otherwise opaque DPRK government.  His work gives an extremely useful insight into trends and patterns that have been emerging in the movements of the DPRK leadership in recent months, and is a must-read for anyone who's work involves North Korea in any way.

NK News is happy to make available the first installment for download now (PDF 2.5mb):