Tag: ninth party congress
Kim Jong Un sidelines his predecessors in sweeping cult of personality...
North Korea has launched an intensified cult of personality campaign around leader Kim Jong Un following the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of...
South Korea’s rushed embrace of Kim Jong Un’s ‘two-state theory’ is...
North Korea's Kim Jong Un first introduced the concept of two hostile states in late 2023, framing South Korea as the country's foremost enemy....
Pyongyang tells diplomats to drop denuclearization, push arms control instead
North Korea's government issued a strategic directive in late March ordering its foreign affairs and military officials to abandon denuclearization as a negotiating framework...
North Korea rejects 90% of local party documents in post-congress crackdown
North Korea has launched an unprecedented inspection campaign targeting party documents submitted by local Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) organizations following the Ninth Party...
North Korea mocks Seoul over drone apology. Time to reflect.
In a Kim Yo Jong South Korea statement issued April 6, the senior WPK official acknowledged President Lee Jae-myung's apology over a South Korean...
North Korea orders military loyalty lectures ahead of April 25 army...
North Korea's Korean People's Army General Political Bureau (GPB), the military's primary organ for political indoctrination, ordered a series of special lectures across the...
North Korea’s state security apparatus undergoes generational overhaul after party congress
North Korea's state security bureau in North Hamgyong province has ordered the replacement of roughly 40% of its agents at municipal and county offices...
N. Korea orders writers and artists to complete ideological training before...
North Korea has ordered all writers and artists to complete an intensive ideological training course by early April, as the regime moves to tighten...
Over 20 young people sentenced at Sunchon public trial after Ninth...
North Korean authorities sentenced more than 20 young people to prison in early March at a public trial in Sunchon, a city in South...
Ninth Party Congress purge signals sweeping overhaul of provincial party officials
The sweeping personnel overhaul launched at the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is now pushing into the provinces. The North...
