Leadership
Information related to North Korea’s leadership and leadership structures
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
