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Pay Attention: The “Commentator” Returns
In recent weeks, in response to US-ROK military exercises, Pyongyang has revived the “Commentator,” a format that once appeared from time to time in the party organ Rodong Sinmun and was traditionally...
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Quick Take: North Korea’s “National Defence Industrial Enterprise”
(Source: KCNA) On April 26, North Korean media mentioned a “newly established national defence industrial enterprise under the Second Economy Commission” while reporting that Kim Jong Un, on the...
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Quick Take: North Korea Jabs at China in Reaction to Trilateral Summit
(Yang Seung Hak from the South Korean Office of the President) In an unusually quick same-day reaction to the Ninth ROK-Japan-China Trilateral Summit held in Seoul, a North Korean Foreign Ministry...
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Quick Take: North Korea Makes Unusual Military Reference on Eve of Kim-Putin...
(Source: KCNA) Much of the media commentary in the lead-up to Vladimir Putin’s long-anticipated visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) on June 18-19 has focused on...
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Quick Take: Some Musings on Eve of Putin-Kim Summit in Pyongyang
(Source: KCNA) As important as North Korea-Russia military cooperation is, perhaps the more important question is what the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) ultimately seeks...
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Moving Past the Kim-Putin Summit: Eyes on the Party Plenary Meeting for Cues
Source: KCNA Vladimir Putin’s less-than-24-hour visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) last week spawned a whirlwind of pre-summit media speculation about exactly how...
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Kim’s Uranium Enrichment Facility Visit: Looking Beyond the US
Source: KCNA They say silence is golden, but that is not always the case with North Korea. After a relatively quiet two months following the Kim-Putin June summit in Pyongyang, the North has pivoted...
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Pyongyang’s New Frame
Source: KCNA Pyongyang continues to alter how it frames the international security landscape, increasingly portraying itself as part of a larger collection of countries standing against the United...
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