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The Russian university hosting the Kim-Putin summit is eyeing wider cooperation with North Korea
Vladivostok’s Far Eastern Federal University is playing host to the summit between Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin this week but plans were recently agreed for it to play a greater role in DPRK-Russian academic exchange. The university already hosts about 10 North Korean graduate students per year and in November last year it agreed…
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State media is fast with news of Kim’s departure for Russia
North Korean state media has showed unusual speed in reporting on the movements of Kim Jong Un for the second time this year. Kim’s departure for Russia from Pyongyang railway station headlined state radio news bulletins on Wednesday morning and made the front page of the day’s newspapers despite apparently happening just hours earlier (See…
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Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s Address: The Art of Propaganda
Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s address got a makeover in 2019. Gone was the lectern and flowers in front of a large assembly hall, and in came an armchair and a more relaxed style. KCTV thankfully got rid of most of the absurd recorded applause that punctuated his speech in previous years, although snippets were…
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North Korean Media: KCTV’s Coverage of Kim Jong Un’s Diplomatic Push in 2018
North Korea’s state broadcaster, Korean Central Television (KCTV), has had to tread a fine line covering this year’s international summits and diplomatic events. On the one hand, the numerous summits have been something to hail, having put Kim Jong Un concretely on the global stage, broken the country’s international diplomatic isolation and potentially laid the…
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North Korea and the Internet: Building for the Future
This story first appeared on 38 North. Construction of the new Internet Communication Bureau headquarters (평양인터네트통신국건설) in Pyongyang appears to be near externally complete, more than two years after it first broke ground. The purpose of the agency is unclear, although it appears to be focused on the global Internet and not North Korea’s national…
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North Korean TV picks up World Cup from Round of 16
North Korean TV viewers are getting delayed coverage of the FIFA World Cup although one team has pointedly been excluded from the coverage. For days after the World Cup began on June 14, North Korean TV was silent about the contest but that changed on July 1 when it televised Argentina vs France. The game…
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How North Korean TV covered the summit – Thursday
As expected, Korea Central Television broadcast a documentary on Thursday about Kim Jong Un’s trip to Singapore and his meeting with Donald Trump. The documentary was about 45 minutes long and gave most of North Korea its first look on video at Donald Trump. As with all state TV coverage, the documentary wasn’t focused on…
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How North Korean TV covered the summit – Wednesday
As expected, North Korean led its Wednesday programming with a series of reports on the Tuesday summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump. The coverage was led by a report anchored by Ri Chun Hee and was broadcast at 15:09; 17:00; 20:00 and 22:07. But, the broadcaster didn’t use any still images to illustrate the…
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How North Korean TV covered the summit – Tuesday
North Koreans eager to hear news from Singapore of the summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump will have to wait a little longer. On Tuesday at 3pm, moments after the two leaders had signed their agreement, Korean Central Television came on air as scheduled. After the obligatory national anthem and Songs of both…
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How North Korean TV covered the summit – Monday
The summit was headline news across North Korean state media outlets on Monday morning, or more accurately it was Kim Jong Un’s departure from Pyongyang, his arrival in Singapore and his meeting with the Singaporean PM that was the focus of the stories. Despite little coverage until now, the stories all noted that Kim would…
