... of anti-Americanism that combined explosively with soccer-fuelled nationalism. These are South Korea’s Taeguk warriors. Imagine how they will react once even 200 South Koreans are killed in a tit-for-tat military exchange between Uncle Samael and Kim Jong-un? The lives of South Koreans naturally matter less to American uber-patriots like Senators John “I hate those Gooks” McCain and Lyndsey Graham who was the “happiest dude in America” after the April 6 attack on Syria. There is something ...
... was that is offered the possibility to launch a production drive as part of the “70-day battle” in anticipation of the Congress. In effect, the supreme body of the WPK became “a congress of one man,” “the victor” Kim Jong-un. The main, if not the sole, aim of the grandiose event (attended by nearly 5,000 delegates and observers) was to draw a line under the process of the consolidation of Kim Jong-un’s power and to honour him as the nation’s leader ...
....
This advice came against a backdrop of the agreement on resuming high-level bilateral talks during the visit of a North Korean official delegation to Inchhon to participate in the closing ceremony of the Asian Games. The DPRK’s team included Kim Jong-un's two closest advisors – Hwang Pyong-so, Director of the Korean People’s Army General Political Department, and Choe Ryong-hae, Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea – as well as Kim Yang-gon, the party secretary in charge ...
... Geun-hye,
the daughter of “the father of the South Korean
miracle”
Park Chung-hee, actually recognized
mistakes of her predecessor and announced
the beginning of Trust Policy toward
the North.
However, the young leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un, probably due to internal reasons – the need to strengthen his personal power and consolidate the elites and the population – chose the path of escalating the tension and war hysteria against the South. After the launch of a three-stage ...
Pyongyang and its Opponents: From Sanctions to Dialogue
Two December news stories were, for North Korea, the symbolic highlights of 2012. Young North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was voted American Time magazine readers'
Person of the Year
, winning the contest by a wide margin. And North Korea successfully launched, and put into orbit,
its artificial satellite
, an event confirmed by the North American Aerospace ...
Will the change of leadership bring about the change of the regime?
The change of leadership in North Korea has been smooth so far; and dramatic changes in its internal and foreign policies are unlikely in the medium and short- term perspective. At the same time, in order to survive and ensure the regime’s security the ruling elite needs to carry out economic reforms and modernization. North Korean partners should take advantage of a new leader in power for normalizing the situation around this...
