Tag: Kim Jong-un

If anyone knows about high quality food products it is Kim Jong-un:

Kim Jong Un provided field guidance at a food production plant on Saturday, Pyongyang time, marking his first public factory visit of 2016.

Pyongyang’s state-controlled media outlet KCNA reported Kim called on factory workers at Gold Cup Athletes Comprehensive Food Factory to produce more gustatory and nutritious food products for the state’s athletes.

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South Korean outlet Newsis reported it’s likely the plant was recently renovated and Kim was marking the new opening with an official visit.

Kim expressed satisfaction with the factory and said it had improved over the past year.

“Great improvements to the lives of the people will come, if everyone, like the factory’s cadres and employees here who make [North Korea] products that are the envy of the world, work with ambition and determination for the good of the [North Korean people],” Kim reportedly said.

The North Korean leader added cadres from other factories should learn from the plant’s example.

Pyongyang has previously stated the country’s top priority is to transform itself into an “economic powerhouse.”  [UPI]

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Korean newspaper runs with @NewYorker Kim Jong Un cartoon to show other leaders with toys. https://t.co/tjojZFN2Dl pic.twitter.com/i9PSkVaT2b

— Alastair Gale (@AlastairGale) January 18, 2016

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un makes a congratulatory visit to the Ministry of People’s Armed Forces for the new year, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports on Jan. 10, 2016. Kim said the hydrogen bomb test carried out last week was an act of self-defense, according to the report. (KCNA-Yonhap)

Anyone else think KimJongUn is looking more and more like Pillsbury Dough Boy/StayPuft Marshmallow Man? Just saying pic.twitter.com/iE1sBPJBv7

— Bruce Klingner (@BruceKlingner) January 5, 2016

Kim Jong-un Focuses on Economy, Not Nukes, in New Year's Speech – https://t.co/dNoerJInPT

— Korea Noodles (@Korea_Noodles) January 3, 2016

These photos carried by North Korea’s ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun on Dec. 29, 2015, show the country’s leader Kim Jong-un at a commendations ceremony for fishermen. According to the report, Kim lauded the exemplary fishermen and fisheries officials for their remarkable successes. (Yonhap)

Via a reader tip comes the below news that a close aid of Kim Jong-un has died in a car accident.  Considering Kim Jong-il’s recent track record it makes me wonder if this was really an accident or not?  However, the North Korean state media “closest comrade-in-arms and steadfast revolutionary comrade” and he was given a state funeral.  If Kim Jong-un wanted Kim Yang-gon dead maybe he is now doing it in a way that doesn’t bring negative international media attention?  Either that or it really was just a car accident:

 A senior North Korean ruling party official and a top aide to leader Kim Jong Un has died in a car accident, the state news agency reported on Wednesday, in the latest event to hit the close circle of deputies of the country’s leader.

Kim Yang Gon, who was a secretary of the Workers’ Party and the head of its United Front Department, the unit that handles the North’s ties with South Korea, was Kim Jong Un’s “closest comrade, a solid revolutionary partner,” KCNA said.

Kim as the top official managing ties with the South was part of a high-level delegation that held talks in August after the rival states exchanged artillery fire, raising tensions to one of its highest points in recent years.

Those talks produced an agreement that ended the standoff and for the two sides to work to hold more discussions to improve ties.

KCNA said Kim died on Tuesday in an automobile accident at the age of 73. It gave no details of the accident.  [Reuters]

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) talks with a senior official of the North Korean People’s Army during his inspection of actual maneuvers between the Army’s large combined units 526 and 671 in this photo released by the North’s state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper on Dec. 24, 2015. Kim was also quoted as saying, “Practical drills should be conducted so often to cope with the hardest and severest war.” The paper, published by the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, did not report when the photo was taken. (Yonhap)

Kim Jong Un Visits Ku’msusan to Mark KJI Death Anniversary https://t.co/FRTVAAjEXm pic.twitter.com/EHa0pQAggE

— NorthKoreaRealTime (@BuckTurgidson79) December 17, 2015

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (2nd from L) inspects the May 9 Catfish Farm. (Yonhap)