Liberty Korea Post correspondents inside North Korea havelearnedthatKim Jong-un hasbeenemphasizing the reinforcement of KPA (Korean Peoples Army) Special Forces branchas a strategic option for North Korea. Kim is known to have visited the “Storm Corps”ten times this year alone and conducted meetings with Brigade Commanders. TheStormCorps ismade up ofselectedbrigades belonging to Special Forces. This year, the KPA personnel have beenmobilized for construction projects in a big way. TheKPA is planning to transfer agood portion of the 1.2-million regular army personnelto the construction divisi
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, today criticised the South Korean government for excluding Kim Myung-sung, a reporter of the Chosun Ilbo, from the pool of journalists assigned to cover the High-Level meeting at the border village of Panmunjom.According to information received by, the government removed Kim from the journalists’ pool because he is a defector from North Korea. Kim has been critical of North Korea in his reporting.Kim Myung-sung defected to South Korea in 2002 and he became a journalist for the Chosun
Liberty Korea Post has learned that Secretary of State Pompeo’s visit to Pyongyang in July caused considerable buzz regarding the future of the US-North Korea relations among the elite cadres. While Pompeo didn’t get to meet Kim Jong-un in July, he is known to have brought up the topic of political labor camps, leaving the impression that disbanding of political labor camps was a prerequisite to improved relations between the US and DPRK. The topic of political camps drew considerable interest among the elites. It is their understanding that Pompeo had alluded to taking the prisoners to the US
Liberty Korea Post has learned from a North Korean elite stationed in China that Kim Jong-un had issued an order in mid-May to pursue a summit with Prime Minister Abe of Japan. According to the source, “The Party Central’s Organization Department has been preparing in secret for the North Korea-Japan summit. The summit planning committee is composed of experts from the State Security Bureau and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The State Security Bureau is dealing with the abduction cases of Japanese nationals. The ministry of Foreign Affairs has been in contact with the Japanese officials.” Origin
America is a staunch ally of South Korea, a benefactor who stopped the communist aggression from taking over the entire Korean peninsula. As a defector who has escaped the communist system, I am thankful for America’s role in defending freedom in the peninsula. And, I would like to see the 23-million North Korean population enjoy basic freedoms—freedom to travel, freedom of expression—that I am enjoying now. Having said that, I believe that the freedom of North Korean people is the most important element in discussions surrounding the Korean peninsula and I have a few concerns about the US pol
A new kind of fear politics is blowing across the North Korean landscape these days, according to Liberty Korea Post correspondents inside North Korea. While inter-Korean détente colors the popular rhetoric between Pyongyang and Seoul these days, the hoi polloi of North Korea face punishment for voicing their hopeful views on South Korea and unification. The State Security agency has arrested a resident of HaeBangDong in SinUiJu for speaking favorably of South Korea. “A person from my village was arrested for saying that it would be good to be reunited with the help of South Korea. He said it
On August 17th, Kim Jong-un visited SamJiYon, a county [near Baekdu Mt.] referred to as the “Holy Land of Revolution.” Apparently, Kim’s latest visit unsettled the area residents and the construction laborers, causing them to coin a nickname for him as “Nolbu,” [a mean, greedy character from an ancient Korean legend]. According to sources from the area, Kim rode his train from central SamJiYon to Ri Myung Soo station that day. Then he rode his car from Ri Myung Soo to the Potai potato cooperative farm. On his return trip, he rode his car to SamJiYon, rather than riding the train. [Most likely
[North] Korea Workers Party (hereinafter, The Party) has been organizing and conducting a series of lectures for scientists and youth intellectuals to explain the closure of the YongByun facility. Liberty Korea Post’s inside sources opined that the lecture series was meant to counter the public perception that Kim Jong -un had “surrendered to the US in the nuclear confrontation” at the Singapore summit with Trump on June 12th.A source in HamKyungBukdo stated, “There have been three science exhibitions between August 20th and October 2nd. Holding three exhibits during such a short period of tim
The North Korean government Administrative Department held a business conference in early August to discuss the future of the economy. Participants consisted of the trading office, foreign currency companies, the Number 5 management bureau, and business offices. The main point of the conference was to organize foreign partnerships in time for the 8th KWP (Korean Workers Party) convention in 2020. According to a manager of a foreign-currency-based company, “The conference instructed all the parties to seek and formulate business plans for partnership with foreign entities.” Further, the busines
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