Leadership
Information related to North Korea’s leadership and leadership structures
North Korea claims it launched 18 missiles at once in warning to South
Kim Jong Un says DPRK ready to launch preemptive strike while guiding major missile salvo involving 600mm MLRS
May 31, 2024
North Korea reveals identity of top official linked to recent missile advances
NK Pro analysis shows Kim Yong Hwan, new head of Academy of Defense Science, has been at DPRK leader’s side for years
May 31, 2024
Kim Jong Un vows to overcome failed satellite launch at military academy visit
North Korean leader says civilian sector to remain underfunded in order to ward off ‘provocations’ from South
May 29, 2024
North Korea to hold major party meeting after overhauling inter-Korean policy
Expert says plenum likely to consider constitutional revisions, while Politburo ‘almost certainly’ discussed Putin visit
May 27, 2024
China silent on North Korea’s satellite launch plans at Seoul trilateral summit
South Korean and Japanese leaders call for denuclearizing DPRK, as Chinese premier stresses need for ‘restraint’
May 27, 2024
Ask a North Korean: Does North Korea really carry out public executions?
A defector writes about witnessing someone sentenced to death and why the regime ‘kills the chicken to warn the monkey’
North Korea’s rapid weapons plant construction betrays urgent production push
Kim Jong Un’s latest factory tour suggests even unfinished facility may be operational amid arms sales to Russia
May 23, 2024
State media review: Kim Jong Un lays rose at grave of mentor who backed his rule
An in-depth analysis of official’s death anniversary, criticism of US weapons in Gaza and a Russian delegation's arrival
May 23, 2024
Everything Moon Jae-in says about North Korea in his mammoth new memoir
NK Pro translates key parts of former president’s book, from Kim Jong Un’s wish to visit border island to anger at US
May 22, 2024
Kim Jong Un displays portrait next to predecessors in personality cult boost
First public display of own portrait in same fashion as father, grandfather seen at party cadre school opening
May 22, 2024
