Peopleoften ask me, "Why don't the North Korean people rise against thedictatorship? Or, why doesn't the military start a coup d'état?" First,I want to shed some light on the resistance movement in North Korea to giveinsight into the present conditions. The resistance movement began with thestudents at Kim Il-sung University back in the 1950s and the 1960s. That wasabout the time when Eastern European countries started to oppose theidolization of Josef Stalin. Students from Kim Il-sung University who werestudying in Moscow and East Berlin took note of the anti-Stalin movement andsaw commonali
Liberty Korea Post learned from its source inside North Korea via telephone that Kim Hyok-chol, a North Korean diplomat, had not been executed, but excommunicated from KWP (Korean Workers Party). Terminated from his diplomatic post, Kim is undergoing revolutionary education at the moment. He is not incarcerated at a political prisoners camp. There have been various media reports concerning Kim’s execution due to his role in the failed summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un in Hanoi in February. Kim Jong-un had tapped on Kim Hyok-chol to lead the nuclear negotiations at the working level ahead
A Liberty Korea Post source inside North Korea informs that Kim Jong-un’s treasury is being depleted due to the continuing US sanctions against trading activities. Many insiders surmise that Kim Jong-un was dragged out to JSA to meet Trump on June 30 for this very reason.Kim Jong-un has been known to hold dollar currency in front of the elites at the time of his succession. The dollar currency was popular among the elites, and Kim Jong-un used the dollars to woo them. For example, Kim passed out cash cards for high ranking military generals to the tune of $1,500, a monthly stipend as an incent
The PRC President Xi Jinping went to Pyongyang from June 20 through June 21 this year in a first state visit by a Chinese leader in 14 years. The last visitor was Hu Jintao who spent time with Kim Jong-il in October 2005. Kim Jong-il had agreed to abandon his nuclear program a month before, and Hu rewarded Kim with a visit. This agreement didn’t last long. North Korea conducted its first nuke test in October 2006. Xi’s visit to Pyongyang came after five nuke tests, blistering exchanges of threats and harsh words between Kim Jong-un and Trump, followed by two summits, first in Singapore and the
ChonWoo Group (Tian Construction Group) is one of the major Chinese investors in North Korea. Having started as a small state-operated construction firm back in the 1970s, ChonWoo Group has grown to a conglomerate comprising 14 subsidiaries during the era of Chinese economic reform. Its subsidiaries include ChonWoo International Travel Company and Yanji ChonWoo International Trading Company. Together, they control over 70% of the tourism business in North Korea. The group is known to have invested significantly in construction projects in Pyongyang’s premium districts such as Chang Jon and Yo
North Korea’s official news KCNA has reported that Kim Jong-un had inspected on June 1 and June 2. Sources inside North Korea indicate that Kim Jong-un’s visit actually took place from May 29 to May 31. Kim inspected KangKye Fine Machinery Works factory under the auspices of the Second Economy Committee (Military sector), 4th Machinery Industry Bureau. This manufacturing facility, the largest underground military equipment factory in North Korea, has over 10,000 workers. They produce SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles and air-to-surface missiles. JangJa River Machine Tools factory is known to manuf
North Korean refugees entering South Korea are surprised that people who live in Seoul and those who live in the countryside carry the same type of ID card. In North Korea, the citizens of Pyongyang carry a brown plastic ID card marked as “Pyongyang Citizen,” while people who live outside Pyongyang carry a light green ID card labeled, “Public Person.”There is a vast difference in lifestyle and entitlement between Pyongyang citizens and non-Pyongyang people. North Korea is the only country that issues a special ID card for citizens of the capital city. The special ID card system was instituted
Liberty Korea Post has learned from its sources inside North Korea that a public execution took place in the HyungJeSan District in Pyongyang City recently. The public execution was witnessed by the management elites connected with service centers from Pyongyang and countryside. The public execution had to do with “SongAk soju incident.”The SongAk soju incident involved homemade soju products commonly referred to as “minju.” In North Korea, people produce soju at home and sell it at the marketplace (jangmadang). Often, some minju brewers use counterfeit labels from state-operated manufacturer
Liberty Korea Post has learned via its sources inside North Korea that Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong-un’s sister, had fainted on April 24th. This explains her absence at the Russia-DPRK summit meeting between Kim Jong-un and Putin in Vladivostok on April 25th.The exact reason for her fainting is not known. North Korean elites are speculating that her illness is related to her stomach problem, maybe even stomach cancer, since she had had a polyp surgery at BongHwa clinic in 2017, and that she always carried medication for her stomach pain.Kim Jong-un has been visiting his sister every day. Meanwhile,
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