Friday, January 19, 2018

Jong-un shares his food with the hungry

According to KCNA (https://twitter.com/NoKoNews/status/935718426500313091) "Kim Jong-un declared with pride that now we have finally realized the great historic cause of completing the state nuclear force.” I’ll spare you the rest of it but KCNA goes on to claim that the successful launch was a victory for “the simultaneous development of the two fronts.” Of course “the two fronts” refer to military and the economy. So either KCNA does not understand what “simultaneous” means or they set the bar on the economy front very low. Anyway, does the success mean Jong-un will finally share his food with the hungry North Koreans? I would not bet on it.

Defector Memoirs (and Hwang Jang-yop)

I’ve always wanted to compile a complete list of all the North Korean defector memoirs. There are currently 14 memoirs about defectors f...