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Anniversary of Kim Jong-il’s Death in North Korea

North Korea vows justice for leader Kim Jong-il North Korea: Five years of rule under Kim Jong-un from Al-Jazeera English Today the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) marked five years since the death of Dear Leader Kim Jong-il, vowing to continue his military-first policies and to advance successor Kim Jong-un’s Pyongjin Line (the strategic […]

North Korea and the Opportunity for a Chinese-Led Solution

Often the People’s Republic of China takes a lenient stance towards its ally the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is why it was surprising that China signed a UNSC resolution condemning North Korea’s missile tests and authorizing the imposition of further sanctions on the regime in Pyongyang. China’s willingness to rein in its […]

The Spectre of Juche: Is North Korea Capable of True Reform?

As his first year as Supreme Leader concludes, analysts have an overall mixed reaction to Kim Jong-un’s style of leadership. Promises of economic reform, innovations in propaganda that has made it more outward facing in nature, and the introduction of a first family with his marriage to Ri Sol-ju are just three of the highlights of the newest Kim’s first year. While the […]

Does PRC Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s Family Control Hidden Fortune?

It would seem contradictory, even some would say almost to the level of self-parody, that a government official and party member in a nominally communist country could be tied to a family that controls a fortune rumored to be valued in the billions of dollars. Yet such is the rumor with the Prime Minister of […]

North Korea Releases ‘Arirang,’ It’s Own Version of Apple’s Vaunted iPad

North Korean state media, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), reports that the nation’s Pyongyang Information Technology Bureau has developed the DPRK’s first tablet computer, the Arirang. Certainly the world has many questions about the device, among which might include: How does a nation prone to famine and trapped in the 1960s create a tablet computer? […]

North Korean Military Parade to Announce Kim Jong-un

The above video was taken during the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s largest military parade ever held in order to signal that Kim Jong-il’s youngest son, current leader Kim Jong-un, was to succeed his father as the head of history’s only communist dynasty. [The Guardian]

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Does Kim Jong-un Signal a New Direction for North Korea?

Immediately following Kim Jong-il’s death, experts in international relations worried that the regime in North Korea would implode, leading to a massive humanitarian and political crisis. Instead, thus far, the opposite has occurred, with Kim Jong-il’s youngest son, Kim Jong-un, easily assuming control over the world’s last Stalinist state. Already the younger son’s reign is […]