North Korea politics

Fyodor Tertitskiy

Inserted 11 months ago

“The main message is that [Kim Ju Ae, North Korean leader's daughter] sort of like a symbol of power because the first time she appeared was near missiles, and missiles are probably the biggest symbol of North Korea's military. The idea is, look how stable we are. No one can attack us because we have these missiles … and our system can last for another generation.”

Aljazeera

Author of 'North Korea before Kim Il Sung', Seoul-based historian and leading North Korea scholar

08 May 2023 3 2

Korean Central News Agency

Inserted 1 year ago

“He [Kim Jong Un] expressed the fixed determination and will of the Party Central Committee to bring about a revolutionary turn in the agricultural production without fail, saying that nothing is impossible as long as the strong leadership system is established in the whole Party and there is the united might of all the people.”

Aljazeera

Report by North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)

28 Feb 2023 2 2

Yang Moo-jin

Inserted 1 year ago

“The North appears to take a two-track approach in implementing this year's policy goals - strengthening defense capabilities and enhancing people's livelihoods.”

Koreatimes

Professor at the University of North Korean Studies

07 Feb 2023 0 1

Chad O'Carroll

Inserted 2 years ago

“The big focus on rural development is likely a populist strategy. Overall, Kim [Kim Jong-un] might be aware that revealing sophisticated military development plans while people are suffering food shortages and harsh conditions outside of Pyongyang might not be such a good idea this year.”

Aljazeera

Journalist and founder of NK News, a Seoul-based website that tracks North Korea

31 Dec 2021 2 3

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 2 years ago

“The basic tasks facing the part and the people the next year are to provide a firm guarantee for implementing the five-year plan and make remarkable changes in the national development and the people's living.”

Aljazeera

Leader of North Korea

31 Dec 2021 1 3

Go Myong-hyun

Inserted 2 years ago

“Kim Jong Un has always had a natural instinct for power. He had the most important quality to be the leader of North Korea, his obsession about power. People thought for Kim Jong Un to become his own man it would take some time, but you know, it only took like three or four years for him to eliminate everybody who could be influential or powerful enough to rival him.”

Aljazeera

Research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies focusing on North Korea

17 Dec 2021 3 3

Fyodor Tertitskiy

Inserted 2 years ago

“I would not say it is a particularly meaningful event. The SAC [State Affairs Commission] as an organization is pretty powerless, as is any organization chaired by the Supreme Leader, as no one can overrule him, so I think it is more of a pat on the back than an actual promotion. She [Kim Yo-jong] is even listed last on the rather long list of officials. This shakeup is probably not mainly about her.”

Koreatimes

Leading researcher at Kookmin University's Institute for Korean Studies

01 Oct 2021 4 2

Cheong Seong-chang

Inserted 2 years ago

“With her official title as a SAC [State Affairs Commission] member, Kim Yo-Jong will be able to hold meetings with the South Korean unification minister or U.S. secretary of state.”

Koreatimes

Director of the Center for North Korean Studies at the Sejong Institute

01 Oct 2021 5 2

Park Won-gon

Inserted 2 years ago

“Considering the North's political system, where the supreme leader decides everything, Kim's [Kim Jong-un] health is an extremely important security matter. It's likely there were internal concerns that he was overweight, and it would have been important for Kim to reduce those concerns and present himself as a young and healthy leader who's capable of doing things.”

Koreatimes

Professor of North Korean studies at Ewha Womans University

11 Sep 2021 1 3

Ri Il-hwan

Inserted 2 years ago

“The government of the republic will firmly defend the dignity and the fundamental interests of our people and solve everything our own way with our own efforts on the principle of self-reliance and self-development under any circumstances. We will increase the People's Army, a pillar in defending the state, in every way, put the defense industry on a higher juche and modernized basis and keep spurring the struggle for carrying out the Party's policy on putting all the people under arms and turning the whole country into a fortress to ceaselessly improve the defense capability of the country.”

Koreatimes

North Korean politician - Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea

09 Sep 2021 3 3

Rodong Sinmun

Inserted 2 years ago

“We must maintain the ideology-first policy to boldly break through the difficulties and to open up a new era of upheaval in socialism... Regarding the emergence of non-socialist practices as something inevitable and keeping a blind eye on the weakening socialist lifestyles and values is similar to dozing off in front of the enemy's gun and ruining the path to socialist construction.”

Koreatimes

Editorial piece official newspaper of the North's ruling party

23 Aug 2021 4 4

Leif-Eric Easley

Inserted 2 years ago

“North Korea's amped up rhetoric against scaled down US-South Korea defence exercises appears to be more about domestic politics than signalling to Washington. The Kim [Kim Jong-un] regime is shifting blame for its struggles to restart the economy after a long, self-imposed pandemic lockdown. Pyongyang is also trying to pressure South Korean presidential candidates to express differences with US policy on sanctions and denuclearisation.”

Theguardian

Professor at Ewha University in Seoul

13 Aug 2021 3 6

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 3 years ago

“I made up my mind to ask the WPK [Workers' Party of Korea] organizations at all levels, including its Central Committee, and the cell secretaries of the entire party to wage another more difficult Arduous March in order to relieve our people of difficulties. Our party never expects that there will be any fortuitous opportunity for us in paving the road for our people and in realizing their great aim and ideals to build socialism and communism. There is nothing we could depend on or look to.”

Koreatimes

Leader of North Korea

09 Apr 2021 3 2

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 3 years ago

“Improving the people's living standards … even in the worst-ever situation in which we have to overcome unprecedentedly numerous challenges depends on the role played by the cells, the grassroots organizations of the party.”

Aljazeera

Leader of North Korea

06 Apr 2021 0 2

Tae Yong-ho

Inserted 3 years ago

“I want to deliver to my colleagues working around the world and North Korean elites that there is an alternative to North Korea, and the door is open.”

Koreatimes

South Korean politician and defector from North Korea

25 Jan 2021 0 2

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 3 years ago

“Our foreign political activities should be focused and redirected on subduing the US, our principal enemy and main obstacle to our innovated development. The reality is that we can achieve peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula when we constantly build up our national defence and suppress US military threats.”

Aljazeera

Leader of North Korea

14 Jan 2021 2 3

Leif-Eric Easley

Inserted 3 years ago

“She [Kim Yo-jong North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister] comes in and out of prominence and her title tends not to match her importance. She is a confidant and image consultant for her brother as well as a trusted pair of eyes and ears embedded in the North Korean elite.”

Koreatimes

Professor at Ewha University in Seoul

11 Jan 2021 2 3

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 3 years ago

“Our foreign political activities should be focused and redirected on subduing the US, our biggest enemy and main obstacle to our innovated development. No matter who is in power in the US, the true nature of the US and its fundamental policies towards North Korea never change. Nothing would be more foolish and dangerous than not strengthening our might tirelessly and having an easy-going attitude at a time when we clearly see the enemy’s state-of-the-art weapons are being increased more than ever. The reality is that we can achieve peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula when we constantly build up our national defence and suppress US military threats.”

Aljazeera

Leader of North Korea

09 Jan 2021 4 2

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 3 years ago

“The surest and fastest way to tackle the current multiple challenges facing us is to make every possible effort to strengthen our own power and our own self-reliant capacity. We intend to comprehensively analyse in depth … our experiences, lessons and the errors committed.”

Aljazeera

Leader of North Korea

06 Jan 2021 1 3

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 3 years ago

“We will continue to strengthen war deterrence for self-defense to deter, control and manage all dangerous attempts and threatening acts, including ever-growing nuclear threats, from hostile forces.”

Koreaherald

Leader of North Korea

10 Oct 2020 0 2

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“The North appears to take a two-track approach in implementing this year's policy goals - strengthening defense capabilities and enhancing people's livelihoods.”

“The big focus on rural development is likely a populist strategy. Overall, Kim [Kim Jong-un] might be aware that revealing sophisticated military development plans while people are suffering food shortages and harsh conditions outside of Pyongyang might not be such a good idea this year.”

“The basic tasks facing the part and the people the next year are to provide a firm guarantee for implementing the five-year plan and make remarkable changes in the national development and the people's living.”

“With her official title as a SAC [State Affairs Commission] member, Kim Yo-Jong will be able to hold meetings with the South Korean unification minister or U.S. secretary of state.”

“Improving the people's living standards … even in the worst-ever situation in which we have to overcome unprecedentedly numerous challenges depends on the role played by the cells, the grassroots organizations of the party.”

“I want to deliver to my colleagues working around the world and North Korean elites that there is an alternative to North Korea, and the door is open.”

“She [Kim Yo-jong North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister] comes in and out of prominence and her title tends not to match her importance. She is a confidant and image consultant for her brother as well as a trusted pair of eyes and ears embedded in the North Korean elite.”

“The surest and fastest way to tackle the current multiple challenges facing us is to make every possible effort to strengthen our own power and our own self-reliant capacity. We intend to comprehensively analyse in depth … our experiences, lessons and the errors committed.”

“We will continue to strengthen war deterrence for self-defense to deter, control and manage all dangerous attempts and threatening acts, including ever-growing nuclear threats, from hostile forces.”

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