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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 […]
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The Purge of Jang Song-thaek: Kim Jong-un Consolidates His Power As Top Officials Purged in Largest State Show Trials Since Kim Il Sung’s Purge of the Domestic Faction in 1955
- December 25, 2013
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Possible turmoil in the DPRK as reports are swirling about the execution of Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Un’s uncle and nominal second-in-command of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. A full-scale purge is believed to be underway as thirty-year-old Kim Jong Un seeks to eliminate factionalism within North Korea to consolidate his nascent rule […]
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Kim Jong Un Attempts to Project Unity During Kim Jong Il Memorial
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attempted to project an image of unity in the wake of his uncle and nominal DPRK second-in-command Jang Song Thaek’s execution following a laundry list of charges against him including such dubious charges as moral dissipation to plotting to overthrow the regime in Pyongyang and disrupt the “monolithic operation […]
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VICE Returns to the DPRK: The Hermit Kingdom
The controversial VICE documentary on the DPRK, The Hermit Kingdom, features everyone from Dennis Rodman to Kim Jong-un himself. If ever the phrase about truth being stranger than fiction needed proof of its validity, it has found it in this documentary. What might escape the untrained eye, however, and proves to be of great interest […]
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Will China Prevent Korean Reunification?
- January 20, 2013
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A recent report by a United States Senate Republican committee speculates that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) could prevent any potential reunification of North Korea and South Korea in the event that the Kim family is thrown out of power or the government of the DPRK collapses. Of course, such a scenario is not entirely implausible […]
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The Juche Dynasty: North Korea and the Heirs of Kim Il-sung
Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s first speech to the public has drawn the hermit kingdom back into the spotlight with a focus on his youth and deadly nuclear arsenal. Propaganda in North Korea has raised the youngest Kim to the heights of supreme status shared only by his father, the late Kim Jong-il, and grandfather, the […]
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