The Pyongyang Purge

Lady Macbeth of Pyongyang

The Chinese Road to Pyongyang

Weakness is weakness, whether one is in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, or Pyongyang.

Those from Office 99 report to the Munitions Industry Department in Pyongyang.

That issue was duly resolved during Prime Minister Koizumi's visit to Pyongyang.

Moreover, responsibility for managing that potential instability extends far beyond the leadership in Pyongyang.

Most observers attribute the recent provocations to the anticipated succession of power in Pyongyang.

Then the king moved to Pyongyang, since the Japanese began to seize the capital.

Thus, former Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited Pyongyang in October 2009 and promised generous economic aid.

What makes the North Korea precedent particularly troubling is how much Iran has mimicked the regime in Pyongyang.

If necessary, it must use its influence even more assertively to bring Pyongyang back to the negotiating table.

Worse still, argues Haggard, is that Pyongyang appears to be offering nothing in return for inter Korean dialogue

He later moved even further north to the border city of Uiju just before the fall of Pyongyang.

It is located in the county of Nyŏngbyŏn in North Pyong'an Province, about 90 km north of Pyongyang.

Japan urges the DPRK to take sincere measures based on the Pyongyang Declaration towards resolving these various issues.

In the showcase capital, Pyongyang, there is not even enough electricity to keep the lights on in the largest hotels.

According to Chan, Kim Jong suk was at Kim Il sung s Pyongyang home near the Soviet Embassy, quarreling with him.

She was sure that it would be used by Pyongyang and our own government in attempting to make political points.

NEW YORK Kim Jong Il s visit to China this week was a gentle reminder that the road to Pyongyang leads through Beijing.

That is why we would like to urge the Japanese Government to acknowledge its past crimes very sincerely, to cease and never repeat the crimes that its nationals are committing on the border between my country and China, and fully to comply with the Pyongyang Declaration adopted during Mr. Koizumi's visit to Pyongyang.

And if Clapton came to Pyongyang at the government s guest, he might not have enough street cred left to light the fuse of rebellion.

The United Nations Development Program recently reopened its office in Pyongyang, another positive sign of the regime s readiness to work toward common development goals.

Pyongyang has intentionally borrowed the West s own rhetoric to highlight a double standard that nuclear weapons states will find it difficult to argue with.

Japan requested that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea should also take sincere steps to address outstanding issues in accordance with the Pyongyang Declaration.

Pyongyang violated its obligations under the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty by secretly reprocessing enough plutonium to produce two nuclear weapons in the early 1990 s.

And thirdly, about the past, Japan's basic position on past issues stands as stated in the Prime Minister's statement of 1995 and the Pyongyang Declaration.

The Soviets plucked a relatively obscure Korean communist, Kim Il sung, from an army camp in Vladivostok, and installed him in Pyongyang as the leader of North Korea.

Pyongyang, the capital, was dark and deserted, illuminated by the cavalcade taking us from the official housing to the opera house, only to return to darkness behind us.

Enough is enough, a mid level North Korean government official recently uttered in a private conversation with a South Korean visitor to Pyongyang regarding Kim Jong eun s likely succession.

Is such a place the right venue for a Western orchestra? Can one imagine the New York Philharmonic, which performed to great acclaim in Pyongyang, entertaining Stalin or Hitler?

Japan will continue to make every effort to ensure that the nuclear issue, along with the missile and abduction issues, is comprehensively resolved in accordance with the Pyongyang Declaration.

The capital and largest city is Pyongyang other major cities include Kaesong in the south, Sinuiju in the northwest, Wonsan and Hamhung in the east and Chongjin in the northeast.

And some analysts in Seoul believe that a dicey political succession in Pyongyang, combined with food shortages in the countryside, could prove too much for the North Korean regime to handle.

Others believe the EU cannot continue being run along the same lines as in Beijing or even Pyongyang. It s an issue that will confront any new team chosen by the old methods.

But no one should mistake this for a Pyongyang Spring. Indeed, the regime s efforts to hide, yet again, a severe food shortage demonstrate that its core values have not changed in the least.

Second point concerning the Pyongyang Declaration between Japan and the DPRK, it was a very good declaration, but it is not yet being implemented, due to the betrayal move by the Japanese Government.

Indeed, commentators also warn that no matter how strongly the U.S. and its allies apply pressure on Pyongyang, the North has enough artillery (without nuclear weapons) to strike and cause considerable damage to Seoul.

As for the so called outstanding issues of the Pyongyang Declaration, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea had done its best in regard to them and had informed Japan of the steps it had taken.

Rather than pressure China to shut down the cross border flow of fuel and food in order to teach Pyongyang a lesson, the US and its allies must find ways to support North Korea s economic integration with the region.

If North Korea had reciprocated in a timely manner following US envoy William Perry s visit to Pyongyang in May 1999, President Bill Clinton s policy of engagement with the North might have been upgraded to a push for normalization of diplomatic relations.

What makes the North Korea precedent particularly troubling is how much Iran has mimicked the regime in Pyongyang. This naturally prompts questions about whether Iran is using the current round of negotiations as a façade for an ongoing effort to develop nuclear weapons.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced a major trade package during his trip to Pyongyang last November, perhaps on the order of 10 billion. North Korea recently established the State Development Bank and Taepung International Investment Group (headed by a Korean Chinese businessman), charged with attracting foreign investment.

He wished to remind the Democratic People's Republic of Korea that, in the Joint Statement of the Six Party Talks issued on 19 September 2005, both Japan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea had committed themselves to taking steps to normalize their relations in accordance with the Pyongyang Declaration.

I am determined not to allow the lessons of that horrible war to erode, and to contribute to the peace and prosperity of the world without ever again waging a war. He called once again on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to take steps with respect to the outstanding items of the Pyongyang Declaration.